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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). Fun fact: Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Womens Network and is a member of the Girls in Tech Board of Directors.

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IDG Contributor Network: Can the U.S. Senate secure the Internet of Things?

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As a free and open internet continues to come under assault by the FCC’s proposal to effectively end net neutrality, investors, programmers, and internet users of all stripes have vociferously voiced their support of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the open web that enables it. A hopeful IoT security bill. Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch

Network World

That’s the report from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it rolled out the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS) on Oct. So far, so good. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tips for securing IoT on your network

Network World

Judging by all the media attention that The Internet of Things (or IoT) gets these days, you would think that the world was firmly in the grip of a physical and digital transformation. The analyst firm Gartner, for example, puts the number of Internet connected “things” at just 8.4

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Cisco’s acquisition history has shaped its evolution

Network World

Cisco is a dominant networking force — arguably the most dominant — but it didn’t get there alone or overnight. Other significant acquisitions by Cisco include AppDynamics in 2017 for application performance monitoring and Acacia Communications in 2021 for optical networking.

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ICANN housecleaning will revoke old DNS security key this week

Network World

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will this week do some important housecleaning from its successful, first-ever cryptographic key change performed last October. The KSK helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS) and overall Internet security.

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

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In the latter case, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, is used to find the best path by weighing the latest network conditions based on reachability and routing information. BGP has been called the glue of the Internet and the postal service of the internet.

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