Network Operations

Security by Diversity: The Business of Security Through Diversity

Fredrik Lindeberg

• 8 Dec 2022

• 10 min read

With information security such a complex and fast-moving field, how can companies gather enough information to make informed decisions about what is right for their networks? What criteria should you look for, how do you evaluate systems, and how can you determine which methods will scale most effe…

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Chris Amin: RIPE IPmap - Geolocating Routes Across the Internet

Alun Davies

• 6 Dec 2022

• 2 min read

Geolocation providers usually focus on locating end user devices at the edge of the Internet. But what about the machines that make up the infrastructure in the middle? In this episode, Chris Amin talks about RIPE IPmap - an API developed by the RIPE NCC to geolocate core Internet infrastructure.

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RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: The Nordic Region

Suzanne Taylor

• 6 Dec 2022

• 5 min read

We take a comprehensive look at the five countries and three autonomous regions that make up the Nordic Region as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.

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Top 3 Types of IP Address Abuse That Threaten IPv4 Resource Holders

Vincentas Grinius

• 29 Nov 2022

• 7 min read

Since the exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool, companies across the globe heavily rely on IPv4 transfer and lease markets. Unfortunately, transferred IP address blocks are far more likely to be blocklisted due to IP address abuse. But while abuse negatively affects IP address reputation, the risks …

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CAPIF 1: Peering and Interconnection in Central Asia

Vahan Hovsepyan

• 11 Nov 2022

• 5 min read

Central Asia is a landlocked region that could one day become a centre of interconnection for other regions and countries, including China, Iran, Russia, and the Caucasus. But to get there, networks in the region will need to cross a number of hurdles. CAPIF 1 will bring together local communities …

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A Role for ISACs in Software Supply Chain Assurance

Kathleen Moriarty

• 9 Nov 2022

• 8 min read

In the context of efforts to reduce the attack surface of applications, systems, and networks, developing approaches for assessing software security continues to be an important endeavour. In this article, Kathleen Moriarty maps out different models for software assurance and asks what a role Infor…

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A Brief History of Network Time

Robert Allen

• 25 Oct 2022

• 8 min read

In this post we will look at how network time works today and the technology that keeps it accurate and secure. Most of the digital tools that society relies on–across sectors such as finance, telecommunication, security and energy–only work with precise and reliable time synchronisation. But what …

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IPv6 On by Default

Jan Zorz

• 21 Oct 2022

• 6 min read

At RIPE 85 we'll hold the final instalment in a series of panel discussions that have brought together the people who made the IPv6 World Events happen a decade ago. Read on to find out what the next big push for global IPv6 adoption might look like.

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Minimising RIS Live Delays

Oleg Muravskiy

• 20 Oct 2022

• 7 min read

It has been almost 3 years since we promoted RIS Live to a full production service. Its biggest advantage is that it delivers RIS data in real time, with minimal delays from the RIS collectors to our users. We had received a lot of positive feedback about the service, however, we were still wonderi…

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Staying Alive - What Is TTL and Why Is It Important for Your DNS Setup?

Lars-Johan Liman

• 28 Sep 2022

• 6 min read

If you know about DNS, you've probably heard of the Time-to-Live (TTL) field. But mistakes with TTL are more common than you might think. Here we look at the quirks of DNS record sets, parent/child domains and how to avoid TTL problems.

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