Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Articles by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

U.S.’s largest IPv6 network welcomes rivals

Little-known Hurricane Electric, the nation's leading provider of IPv6 services, is bracing for new and bigger competitors entering the fray. IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the...

10 dumbest mistakes network managers make

When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it's clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again....

Internet Cleanroom: New defence against Facebook attacks

Speakers at a cyber infrastructure security conference say trusted Web 2.0 sites can cause malware even when users do not click on links. Find out how virtualization can help

New DOS attacks threaten wireless data networks

A Bell Labs researcher says the threats are the result of weaknesses in the Mobile IP protocol, warning the attacks are easy to launch and hard to detect

IETF: No consensus on IPv6 NATs

Network managers are reluctant to change their internal IP addresses but the Internet Engineering Task Force believes network address translators are bad for the Internet. Find out how the organization plans to facilitate the transition from IPv4 to IPv6

Seven reasons behind MPLS’s success

The major applications that are making money on the Internet are on MPLS. Here are the reasons why

No business case for IPv6, survey finds

Internet Protocol version 4 only supports 4.3 billion addresses while version 6 supports 2 to the power of 128. Despite this, only a handful of organizations are actually deploying IPv6

Techies end-run feds on DNS security

The U.S. government is delaying widespread deployment of DNS Security Extensions and experts predict the issue won

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