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Cyber security seems to be constantly in the headlines from Target’s massive point-of-purchase system hack and the impressively huge Equifax breach to speculation that teenagers, the Russians or some other nation state may have tampered with elections. There is one thing for sure, cyber security…

Segment routing is not a new concept in the networking industry and it has gained great popularity among service providers around the globe. While service providers are adopting it for the multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) data plane that is deployed extensively in existing networks, there is an…

You don’t need to be a programmer to be successful in infosec A very common belief that has been propagated due to the glorification of hacking is that there is an absolute need for in depth knowledge of programming, nitty-gritty details of memory allocations, registers, sockets etc. to be…

Network modernization initiatives require that government agencies review their current architectures and augment those architectures as needed. Part of the modernization effort includes infrastructure but an equal, possibly even larger, point of focus should be made into the underlying…

In his third non-fiction book titled "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell wrote about and repeatedly mentioned this rule called the "10,000 hour" rule. The premise was not new at that point however it was and continues to be very relevant. The premise of the 10,000 rule is to become an expert at something…

Popular multicast services like IPTV, multicast VPN (MVPN), and 4k broadcast video services heavily depend on the multicast forwarding in the network. Multicast forwarding is complex and resource-intensive. In a multicast network, each specific flow requires the construction of a dedicated path…

Cyber Combat is a live event where teams of network security professionals compete to be the sole victor in a digital arena created by Ixia – think of it as Iron Chef for hackers, with a twist. Each team has a red (offensive) and blue (defensive) player, with the winner being determined by who…

Phishing is one of the easiest, and most efficient, tools to use for attackers in the wild. Even with excellent technical security practices in place, it can be extremely hard to combat the results of social engineering. As a result, identifying phishing pages in the wild is extremely important to…