Layer 3 DDoS are some of the most common types of DDoS attack, and Cloudflare has reported seeing a peak at up to 400Gpbs over the past month. L3 attacks flood a target network with data packets that can completely
Ericsson Launches Its Own Global CDN with Telcos Ericsson has taken a drastic step into disrupting the CDN market to launch a new ubiquitous CDN called UDN (Unified Delivery Network) which aggregates regional service provider capabilities on a global scale.
The entire CDN Ecosystem continues to flourish, with new business models emerging, and CDNs of all sizes increasing sales, led by Akamai who recorded $2.2B in sales last year. The latest entrant to our industry is Cato Networks, and they
Security researchers at the Cyber Security Labs at Ben Gurion University in Israel have developed a proof-of-concept malware that can transmit sensitive information between isolated networks and mobile phones using FM radio signals. The researchers demonstrated a vulnerability in “air-gapped”
In 2016, the war between the two juggernauts is likely to significantly escalate, as CloudFlare takes its Edge Security story to the boardrooms of the large enterprises. CloudFlare is a juggernaut, at least in the world of Edge Security (CDN
Cybersecurity threats have conditioned organizations that their information can be compromised at any moment, and they must defend the full depth of their sensitive information and infrastructure from a disturbingly increasing global threat landscape. From observing various cyber attacks in
Some folks peg the CDN market at $4B to $5B presently, which is likely to grow to $20B by 2020 Cisco VNI predicts that we’ll enter the zettabyte territory by 2019 Some folks believe the CDN market is growing at
Efficiency of HTTPS Long Polling and MQTT with SSL on Android According to Stephen Nicholas, a Super Geek and “IBMer” – MQTT, designed to provide mobile users with low-latency and low power usage messaging over fragile networks, and secure request-response
Connection Pooling and Late Binding to Reduce Roundtrip Latency A common concern in routing is determining how to obtain minimal roundtrip latency to a remote server. To control the number of concurrently established connections and avoid setup costs, connections are
Here’s the latest update to CDN Ecosystem diagram, which now incorporates the SDN-WAN and SDN Networking startup segments. The CDN and SDN segments share a lot of similarities in their infrastructure, along with the Cloud ADC’s. The crossover startups like
Semiweekly Technical Updates Java Zero-Day Attacked Again The popular software companies WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Jenkins, and OpenNMS were exposed as highly vulnerable to zero-day exploits and potentially Remote Code Execution attacks on application servers, according to FoxGlove security in November
Semiweekly Updates Is Level 3 The Next U.S. DoD’s CDN? The United States Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will be offering contracts worth up to $4.3 billion to AT&T, CenturyLink, Level 3, Verizon Business, Artel, BT, GTT
Top Weekly Updates Akamai Issues Q3 2015 State of Internet Report, Partners with Google and Microsoft Akamai, the global content delivery network (CDN) leader, has released its State of the Internet Report for the third quarter of 2015. Average global
The US CDN industry has raised $827M in venture capital so far, inching closer to the $1B mark. ClearSky raised $27M in Series B on November 2, 2015, bringing its total to $39M. What makes this round impressive is twofold:
Top Weekly Updates 1. Instart Logic Partners with Verisign for Advanced DDoS Mitigation and Scrubbing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have doubled in the last year as hybrid clouds have become increasingly popular. Verisign, which protects 70% of the
