Everyone breaks building security policies at some point, whether you let someone in a locked door behind you or neglect to sign a guest in properly. Does it really matter? Does your office even have a policy? We typically spend so much time on other aspects of security, such as protecting our online presences against [...]
What do you mean my password isn’t strong enough?
Everyone has, at one point or another, been asked to create a password only to be told that the password is not strong enough or “the password does not meet complexity requirements”. The continued advancement of technology has enabled computers to crunch numbers faster and faster, in turn, making it easier for hackers to identify [...]
The Evolution of DNS – Starting from the Beginning
With so much going on in today’s digital world, it’s hard to know where to begin with DNS. So, let’s take a step back and look at the history of DNS. First Generation DNS Here’s a little bit of history. The term “Domain Name System” refers to two things. First, the term refers to the [...]
IPv6 – State of the Internet
With the growth of the Internet predicted to quadruple by 2015, IPv6 addressing is absolutely necessary for providers and organizations. IPv6 provides promise for sustaining our ever-increasing rate of Internet expansion. Current statistics show that the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has only 40 million addresses remaining available for assignment while Réseaux IP Européens [...]
Everyday DDoS: Insight Into the Attacks and Losses Companies Experience and the DDoS Protection and DDoS Defense Solutions They Use
Recently, DDoS attackers have grabbed headlines with large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on banks and a handful of other high-profile targets. Are these the new normal? To answer that question and others, Neustar surveyed IT pros on DDoS threats in 2012, comparing them to findings from 2011. Your business can’t afford even a [...]
Load Testing and HIPAA Compliance
If you are in the health care industry and thinking about moving your data “into the cloud,” you are probably thinking about what you need to do to ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – known as HIPAA – in 1996 to create standards [...]
New DDoS Attacks on Banks Show Need for Intelligent Protection
Last fall, a series of large, sophisticated DDoS attacks hit top American banks, knocking some offline and frustrating thousands of customers. Fast forward to February 25, the same group taking credit for last year’s attacks, the Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-din Al Qassam, launched the next wave, followed by a third wave beginning March 6. [...]
Secretariat Services Helps Keep Members Connected
Today’s associations face numerous challenges when addressing the needs of a global constituency. One of the biggest challenges can be keeping your members connected and active when they are located around the world. Most organizations offer an annual meeting or event for face to face networking. If your audience is global, consider rotating the event [...]
Easter Website Performance: Did e-Retailers Hop to It?
To learn how e-retailers handle holiday stress, Neustar measured the homepage performance of the most popular Easter destinations. We set up real browser monitors on each website, with monitors running every five minutes from San Francisco and Washington DC, throttled to replicate typical bandwidths of home users with connections of 6500 kilobytes per second and [...]
Optimizing Django Queries
At the heart of our Web Performance monitoring system is the scheduler. It determines when each sample should be taken and initiates the processing. As our customer base has grown, so too has the time it takes the scheduler to start (which was taking four minutes to complete its initialization process). One of our developers [...]
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