The Cloud Latency Map measures latency across 100+ cloud regions

Kentik launched The Cloud Latency Map, a free public tool allowing anyone to explore the latencies measured between over 100 cloud regions worldwide. Users can identify recent changes in latencies globally between various public clouds and data center … Continue reading The Cloud Latency Map measures latency across 100+ cloud regions

Breaking down FCC’s proposal to strengthen BGP security

In this Help Net Security interview, Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik, discusses the FCC’s proposal requiring major U.S. ISPs to implement RPKI Route Origin Validation (ROV), and addresses concerns about the impact on smaller ISPs a… Continue reading Breaking down FCC’s proposal to strengthen BGP security

Kentik Kube collects metadata across Kubernetes pods, clusters, and services

Kentik, the network observability company, has released Kentik Kube, a solution that reveals how Kubernetes traffic routes through organizations’ data centers, clouds, and the internet. Kentik Kube gives network, cloud, and infrastructure engineers det… Continue reading Kentik Kube collects metadata across Kubernetes pods, clusters, and services

Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks

It’s always DNS. That’s what the famous internet meme popular among sysadmins says anyway. It’s funny because while clearly, every network issue doesn’t resolve to some funky DNS issue, too many network admins have banged their heads against their keyb… Continue reading Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks

Taiwanese government sites hit with DDoS attacks ahead of Pelosi’s visit

One attack appears to have shut down the president of Taiwan’s website Tuesday before Nancy Pelosi’s historic visit.

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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen’s decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent, and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president’s war in Ukraine. Continue reading Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Continue reading What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform

Kentik, the company once known as CloudHelix, today announced that it has raised a $23.5 million growth funding round led by Vistara Capital Partners, with existing investors August Capital, Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Tahoma Ventures also participating. With this round, Kentik has now raised a total of $61.7 million. The company’s platform allows enterprises […] Continue reading Kentik raises $23.5M for its network intelligence platform