DDIDNS SecurityInternet of ThingsIPAMVirtualization & Cloud2017: Bad Year for DNS Security, but Network Management Getting HotThe past year saw some of the largest cyber attacks on record such as WannaCry, Petya and Mirai. The emergence of new threats to the corporate network poses a critical issue to current network and DNS Security capabilities. Last year’s cyber attacks, which caused financial and reputational damage to private and public sector organizations, sparked necessary conversations about how employees and the public can be protected from future threats. In 2017 we also saw the enterprise IT environment becoming more...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationRemoving Network Management Complexity with AutomationIn today’s world, IT is powered by automation. If your network strategy involves cloud or software-defined data centers (SDDC), you also need to consider how your organization can overcome the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure. A key step would be to use automation in the management of IP addresses, and integrate this process within a modern DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) platform. Managing the corporate network Infrastructure management is becoming more and more automated, which means we’re going to need better ways...
DDIDNSIPAMVirtualization & CloudHybrid Cloud DNS – Keep your business up and runningIt is common knowledge that hybrid cloud adoption is exploding, with Gartner predicting 90% of enterprises adopting hybrid infrastructure management capabilities by 2020. This growth includes increased use of the internet to deliver applications, sites and services to employees, partners and customers. As DNS is a foundation for application routing, it makes sense for DNS to be extended to public cloud. DNS delivers a critical network service that allows users to reach online business applications, ensuring accessibility of services you...
DDIDHCPIPAMWhy DHCP Is The Underestimated Network ServiceIf we told you there was an easy way to manage and control your devices and your network, you would probably laugh and walk away at first. In reality, there is…and what’s more surprising, is it is one that’s been there all along. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is what you’re probably using to deliver IP addresses to devices that connect to your network. But a DHCP server is a lot more flexible, and a lot more powerful than you...
DNS SecurityInternet of ThingsIPAMNetwork Security– Are universities ready to deal with unexpected issues?Modern higher education needs technology. IT drives research projects, it powers administrative systems, and it’s on every student’s desk and pocket. The result is a complex, almost chaotic network environment that mixes controlled business services with an uncontrolled myriad of different devices of all ages and all capabilities. There’s no way for higher education organizations to mandate hardware and software; students will always bring their own computers and on average three to four mobile devices. Thousands of machines connect to...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationIPAM: A key component of the IT automation initiativeWalk around any data center anywhere in the world, and while you’ll see a lot of servers, you won’t see many people. That’s because they’re automated, the tasks that used to require teams of operators are now handled by software. Those empty halls are a sign of the huge changes that have swept through IT over the last decade. Servers may still fill our racks, but they’re now just the foundation of a compute and storage fabric that hosts virtual...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationIntegrated DDI: Automating Network Management for Greater ProductivityToday’s network engineers use a plethora of tools to monitor and manage their networks and thousands of IP addresses. However, over the years, many networking teams have acquired too many of them with overlapping features. Managing these tools has become a burden both financially and operationally for organizations, and created more work for IT professionals. This inefficient way of managing a network has become outdated and begs the question, how are even world class, networking teams meant to deliver world...
DDIIPAMIPAM: the Foundation for Efficient Firewall ManagementBack in the old days, ensuring security of your network was simple. All you had to worry about were the common ports: FTP, SMTP, HTTP and HTTPS. You’d keep the ports you were using open, and block everything else, filtering the traffic on allowed services. However, in today’s complex, heterogeneous IT environment, security policies must now be extended across all platforms: physical/virtual and cloud. In particular, they need to be maintained for all the different multi-vendor firewalls your company uses....
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationSmart DDI: Network Automation For Enhanced Business EfficiencyWith the number of global internet users now reaching 3.4 billion according to Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report, leading to 30.7 billion connected devices by 2020, organizations are faced with new challenges: changing the way they deliver and manage IP addresses and integrating this with their DNS/DHCP management. In short, moving to a smart DDI solution. Many of the IP address management tools currently in use were designed for a time when the only devices you had were a...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMIntegrated DDI: The Hidden Helper for Network Management VisibilityTechnology provides a plethora of solutions to keep businesses innovating. But implementing these ideas into a successful IT transformation initiative involves making sure the basic IT infrastructure, on which this innovation is built, stays secure. This requires a modern network infrastructure as a foundational pillar and the implementation of a robust DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI) solution. Such a foundation can be far more strategic than it immediately seems. The hidden helper The smart integration of what many regard as...
