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IoT Security On A 5G Network and IoT Security Risks

Neil Cook on Jul 19, 2019

After years of speculation around the impending arrival of 5G, it has now well and truly arrived. In May this year, EE became the first wireless carrier to switch on the service, which is currently available in a...

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I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El R...

Richard Speed on Jul 2, 2019

UPDATED Cloudflare, the outfit noted for the slogan "helping build a better internet", had another wobble today as "network performance issues" rendered websites around the globe inaccessible. The US tech biz upd...

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DNS latency in a 5G network

Neil Cook on Jun 3, 2019

With an estimated 1.5 billion of us expected to be connected to 5G networks by 2024, there’s no doubt that this next generation of wireless technology will have a profound effect on the future of technology and c...

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PowerDNS: Network-based security - changing the game for telcos and ISPs

Neil Cook on Apr 13, 2019

Consumer awareness of cybersecurity is at an all-time high. In fact, one in five respondents to a recent survey explained that they had become personal victims of a data breach, affecting their trust of certain c...

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How ISPs and CSPs can reap the benefits of network-based security

Neil Cook on Feb 19, 2019

Neil Cook, Open-Xchange Pressure is mounting for communications service providers (CSPs) to begin helping their customers prevent cyber-attacks, but this can be especially tough when users have entire families to...

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Do Not Snoop: DNS security at Open-Xchange’s UK roundtable

Stuart Paton on Feb 18, 2019

Open-Xchange hosted their 4th UK security roundtable event on January 31st in London at a venue close to Tower Bridge. Previous years have focussed on email security topics but this year the focus was on DNS secu...

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Promoting a discussion on DNS-over-HTTPS

Vittorio Bertola on Nov 23, 2018

In the last few months, we have seen a lot of community discussion around the latest development in the internet’s naming system, a new protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS. The DNS—the mechanism through which you can ...

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PowerDNS Protect: what’s in the box?

Neil Cook on Oct 10, 2018

We have recently launched PowerDNS Protect to help telcos and service providers keep their customers’ homes and families of safe. PowerDNS Protect secures home and mobile networks against malware and Internet of ...

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Family and Network Protection with PowerDNS Protect

Neil Cook on Sep 25, 2018

The onset of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is affecting everybody: smart TVs, satellite navigation systems, fitness trackers, and even clocks and fridges are becoming an integral part of our everyday life. New t...

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DNS: the solution to online security and control

Alexander ter Haar on Sep 14, 2018

Internet service providers all aim to provide fast and reliable access. With the growing importance of the Internet and the explosion in the number of connected devices in a household, improving security is becom...

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