Blogs on DDI for Network Automation & Network Security DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) is foundational for managing apps and networks on-prem and in clouds. It simplifies network management, strengthens security, and enables automation. Read how Smart DDI enhances business continuity & UX, speeds up time to revenue, and improves compliance. DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationModern DDI: Your Quick Answer to Technical DebtWe live in a world of networks, where users expect instant access to online services, and where our services need to rapidly respond to changes in demand. It’s a world driven by digital transformation, but one that’s held back by the brakes of technical debt. What is technical debt? At heart it’s a simple concept, initially from the world of software development, a way of describing the work that needs to be done before a system can be upgraded or...DNS SecurityPublic Sector Network Security: A Race Against TimeAs we move more and more of our government-citizen interactions online, making sure we have access to those services becomes increasingly important. After all, we don’t want to be collateral victims of a DDoS attack on a government server just as we’re trying to submit our tax returns. Even more important is ensuring the personal information that the public sector (both local and national government) stores is secure. Databases of government-held information are the most worrying, whether they’re run by...DDIDNS SecurityIPAM2016 in Review: A Year of Network Security Landscape ChangesNetwork security and data protection remain at the top of many CIOs and CSOs’ agendas, as increasingly powerful privacy regulations threaten significant fines for breaches and information leaks. Getting security right means protecting the user first, with the added incentive of protecting a company’s revenues. Dealing with an ever-evolving and increasingly complicated threat landscape, organizations, more than ever need both the right mechanisms and approaches in place and start treating the problem, not just the symptoms. From millions of records...DDIIPAMIPAM: The Foundation of the Modern ISPTo deliver IT services successfully you need a system of record- one place that holds the details of all the devices running on your network, where they are and what they are doing. In most modern service management methodologies, that one place is a configuration management database, where service managers monitor and control changes. But in the cloud and at scale that, model breaks down. That’s why ISPs and telcos are starting to take a different approach to finding the...DDIDNS SecurityFighting DDoS Attacks with Hybrid DNSDNS security has been in the news again, with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever disrupting the Dyn cloud DNS service. At least 150,000 compromised devices (including IoT hardware) were used by the Mirai botnet to bombard cloud-hosted DNS servers with DNS requests, taking down access to many of the Internet’s most popular services. It’s not the only major service provider that’s had a DNS-based attack in the last few weeks, with Singapore’s StarHub reporting a similar incident. What...DDIDHCPDNSIPAMGet Ready For the Future of Retail with DNSWalk into a modern shop and you’ll see this new interface to the world of retail. It’s chip credit card readers, barcode scanners, smart e-paper price labels, intelligent posters, and Bluetooth beacons- a list that goes on and on and into the cloud. They’re tools that are bringing about new ways of selling, and are changing the face of retail in ways you wouldn’t expect. For instance, at its recent Dreamforce event, Salesforce notably demonstrated a tool that used Bluetooth...DDIDNSDNS SecurityAnyone For Tennis? Serving Up Secure DNSIf you think about the ideal scenario for a hacker to gain access to systems, you would come up with a large attack surface and lots of opportunity to disguise attacks as genuine network access. Imagine a network with thousands of potentially unauthenticated devices converging in a short period of time, producing extreme spikes in traffic. Sound like the crowd at a sporting event? Going for gold – the motivation of elite hackers In many ways, the attacks facing the...DNSDNS SecurityGDPRIT Teams – Beware of Accidental Fame Thanks to GDPRFame is something most IT practitioners never experience, nor desire. However, this IT instinct to stay ‘below the radar’ is about to be challenged in a way many did not foresee, due to formidable EU data regulations. For those who do not exercise care, the outcome may make some IT infrastructure experts accidentally famous – in a bad way. While the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation may seem a world away from IT infrastructure and IP provisioning, it...DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudAll or Nothing: Why Partial Automation Does Not WorkAs we build out cloud applications and networks, we need to change the way we deliver and manage IP addresses. Many of the tools we currently use were designed for the good old days, when we had one or two, or maybe tens of servers to support a single application- a server was deployed once and it sat in the datacenter for years. That’s all changed. We’re now deploying hundreds, even thousands, of virtual servers; taking advantage of the speed...DHCPDNSInternet of ThingsIoT Security: Are Universities’ DNS and DHCP Ready for the Challenge?Today, our communications are greatly enhanced by access to the Internet, giving the ability to connect computers through a global network infrastructure. While we once only connected directly through a static port computer, we now utilize more than five connected items on average, making the total amount of IoT devices expected to more than double every five years. However, connecting all of these devices through private or public networks has its dark side too, and can be challenging for many...DNSDNS SecurityImproving DNS Security Helps APAC Businesses Stay OnlineEfficientIP’s 2016 global DNS security survey doesn’t just show the global picture; it lets us drill down into regional differences between various major marketplaces. We’ve already looked at the results from the USA and European markets, and in this second in a series of regional explorations, we’re now looking at the results from Asia, from which EfficientIP interviewed 200 different companies as part of its survey. Asia is home to many of the world’s most advanced economies, driving the global...DNSDNS SecurityEuropean Businesses At Risk of DNS-Powered Security BreachesThe European single market is an attractive place to do business, an open trade zone with common regulation that encompasses 28 countries and nearly 600 million people, combined with liberal EU-wide telecom policies. That also means it’s an attractive place for online criminals who are becoming increasingly sophisticated. With an EU-wide privacy policy, GDPR (now in place and with less than two years for businesses to become compliant), securing your systems is now a high priority: with GDPR it’s possible...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationModern DDI: Your Quick Answer to Technical DebtWe live in a world of networks, where users expect instant access to online services, and where our services need to rapidly respond to changes in demand. It’s a world driven by digital transformation, but one that’s held back by the brakes of technical debt. What is technical debt? At heart it’s a simple concept, initially from the world of software development, a way of describing the work that needs to be done before a system can be upgraded or...
DNS SecurityPublic Sector Network Security: A Race Against TimeAs we move more and more of our government-citizen interactions online, making sure we have access to those services becomes increasingly important. After all, we don’t want to be collateral victims of a DDoS attack on a government server just as we’re trying to submit our tax returns. Even more important is ensuring the personal information that the public sector (both local and national government) stores is secure. Databases of government-held information are the most worrying, whether they’re run by...
DDIDNS SecurityIPAM2016 in Review: A Year of Network Security Landscape ChangesNetwork security and data protection remain at the top of many CIOs and CSOs’ agendas, as increasingly powerful privacy regulations threaten significant fines for breaches and information leaks. Getting security right means protecting the user first, with the added incentive of protecting a company’s revenues. Dealing with an ever-evolving and increasingly complicated threat landscape, organizations, more than ever need both the right mechanisms and approaches in place and start treating the problem, not just the symptoms. From millions of records...
DDIIPAMIPAM: The Foundation of the Modern ISPTo deliver IT services successfully you need a system of record- one place that holds the details of all the devices running on your network, where they are and what they are doing. In most modern service management methodologies, that one place is a configuration management database, where service managers monitor and control changes. But in the cloud and at scale that, model breaks down. That’s why ISPs and telcos are starting to take a different approach to finding the...
DDIDNS SecurityFighting DDoS Attacks with Hybrid DNSDNS security has been in the news again, with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever disrupting the Dyn cloud DNS service. At least 150,000 compromised devices (including IoT hardware) were used by the Mirai botnet to bombard cloud-hosted DNS servers with DNS requests, taking down access to many of the Internet’s most popular services. It’s not the only major service provider that’s had a DNS-based attack in the last few weeks, with Singapore’s StarHub reporting a similar incident. What...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMGet Ready For the Future of Retail with DNSWalk into a modern shop and you’ll see this new interface to the world of retail. It’s chip credit card readers, barcode scanners, smart e-paper price labels, intelligent posters, and Bluetooth beacons- a list that goes on and on and into the cloud. They’re tools that are bringing about new ways of selling, and are changing the face of retail in ways you wouldn’t expect. For instance, at its recent Dreamforce event, Salesforce notably demonstrated a tool that used Bluetooth...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityAnyone For Tennis? Serving Up Secure DNSIf you think about the ideal scenario for a hacker to gain access to systems, you would come up with a large attack surface and lots of opportunity to disguise attacks as genuine network access. Imagine a network with thousands of potentially unauthenticated devices converging in a short period of time, producing extreme spikes in traffic. Sound like the crowd at a sporting event? Going for gold – the motivation of elite hackers In many ways, the attacks facing the...
DNSDNS SecurityGDPRIT Teams – Beware of Accidental Fame Thanks to GDPRFame is something most IT practitioners never experience, nor desire. However, this IT instinct to stay ‘below the radar’ is about to be challenged in a way many did not foresee, due to formidable EU data regulations. For those who do not exercise care, the outcome may make some IT infrastructure experts accidentally famous – in a bad way. While the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation may seem a world away from IT infrastructure and IP provisioning, it...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudAll or Nothing: Why Partial Automation Does Not WorkAs we build out cloud applications and networks, we need to change the way we deliver and manage IP addresses. Many of the tools we currently use were designed for the good old days, when we had one or two, or maybe tens of servers to support a single application- a server was deployed once and it sat in the datacenter for years. That’s all changed. We’re now deploying hundreds, even thousands, of virtual servers; taking advantage of the speed...
DHCPDNSInternet of ThingsIoT Security: Are Universities’ DNS and DHCP Ready for the Challenge?Today, our communications are greatly enhanced by access to the Internet, giving the ability to connect computers through a global network infrastructure. While we once only connected directly through a static port computer, we now utilize more than five connected items on average, making the total amount of IoT devices expected to more than double every five years. However, connecting all of these devices through private or public networks has its dark side too, and can be challenging for many...
DNSDNS SecurityImproving DNS Security Helps APAC Businesses Stay OnlineEfficientIP’s 2016 global DNS security survey doesn’t just show the global picture; it lets us drill down into regional differences between various major marketplaces. We’ve already looked at the results from the USA and European markets, and in this second in a series of regional explorations, we’re now looking at the results from Asia, from which EfficientIP interviewed 200 different companies as part of its survey. Asia is home to many of the world’s most advanced economies, driving the global...
DNSDNS SecurityEuropean Businesses At Risk of DNS-Powered Security BreachesThe European single market is an attractive place to do business, an open trade zone with common regulation that encompasses 28 countries and nearly 600 million people, combined with liberal EU-wide telecom policies. That also means it’s an attractive place for online criminals who are becoming increasingly sophisticated. With an EU-wide privacy policy, GDPR (now in place and with less than two years for businesses to become compliant), securing your systems is now a high priority: with GDPR it’s possible...
