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Ameet Naik
Technical Marketing Manager
Ameet has been breaking and fixing networks for almost 20 years. When he's not writing blog posts or recording webinars, he likes to travel the world in search of good food.
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Anatomy of a BGP Hijack on Amazon’s Route 53 DNS Service

Posted by on April 24th, 2018
April 24th, 2018

How does one steal crypto-coins? By hacking DNS and BGP – the two cornerstone protocols governing the Internet. With any cryptographic system, one way to compromise it is to be a man in the middle (MITM) when a transaction is taking place. Both ends of the transaction believe they’re talking to a legitimate party at the other end, but in reality, a malicious actor sits in the middle and alters the information being passed through to their advantage. In case of cryptocurrency, it could be the public key of the transfer recipient. … Read More »

Monitoring Office 365

Posted by on April 4th, 2018
April 16th, 2018

Is my network ready for Microsoft Office 365? How do I monitor network performance and ensure a flawless user experience across my entire user base, regardless of whether they are on my network or out on the Internet? These are the questions plaguing many adopters of the Office 365 suite, which includes Exchange Online and Sharepoint Online. … Read More »

Does AWS Direct Connect Guarantee Cloud Performance?

Posted by on March 13th, 2018
March 20th, 2018

On Friday, March 2nd we saw a severe outage across Amazon AWS’ US-East-1 region, located in Ashburn, VA. This outage impacted Amazon’s very own Alexa along with multiple apps and services hosted within the IaaS provider, including Slack, Twilio and Atlassian JIRA. Although the infrastructure recovered very quickly from what was a weather-related power outage, we saw prolonged and cascading impacts on many software applications and services running on AWS.… Read More »