Olaf Kolkman – Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org We are a global charitable organization empowering people to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:08:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-ISOC-Symbol-Ground-navy-690px-1-32x32.jpg Olaf Kolkman – Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org 32 32 Global Tech Outage Demonstrates Need for Resiliency in Software Systems https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/07/global-tech-outage-demonstrates-need-for-resiliency-in-software-systems/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:18:03 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=212590 An ATM screen showing no functionality

Today's global outage of many systems was not an Internet outage, but it demonstrates the need for greater resilience in all our technical systems.

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The EU’s Proposed Cyber Resilience Act Will Damage the Open Source Ecosystem https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/10/the-eus-proposed-cyber-resilience-act-will-damage-the-open-source-ecosystem/ Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:41:22 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=179734 European Union flags flying outside of a building

The Cyber Resilience Act will impact the openness of the Internet by virtue of its impact on open source software development.

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Two Months of War: The Impact on the Internet’s Core https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/05/two-months-of-war-the-impact-on-the-internets-core/ Wed, 11 May 2022 13:35:31 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=169133 Map of Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Will the war in Ukraine have a lasting impact on the underlying fabric of the Internet? We used data from organizations around the world and published it on Pulse.

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NIS2 Inconsistency – a DNS Supply Chain Perspective https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/12/nis2-inconsistency-a-dns-supply-chain-perspective/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:28:07 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=161794 eu flag - yellow stars on blue background

The European Union’s Network and Information Security directive (NIS2) is missing an opportunity to foster accountability across the entire DNS supply chain. Instead of focusing on the outcome for the consumer, NIS2 is trying to regulate specific points in the network. Future regulations in the EU or elsewhere can do better. Let me step back […]

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NIS2 – Security, Resiliency, and DNS server infrastructure https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/11/nis2-security-resiliency-and-dns-server-infrastructure/ Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:52:33 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=155952 European Union flags flying outside of a building

Right now, the European Union is developing their second Network and Information Security directive (NIS2) and I am concerned about the language used to describe the domain name system (DNS) – and the negative effects the legislation will have on the security and resiliency of the DNS. At the current time, there are three different […]

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Not the Encryption Apocalypse…Yet https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/03/not-the-encryption-apocalypse-yet/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:22:15 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=134346

“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem.” That is the last sentence in the abstract of a new, preliminary, dense mathematical paper published by renowned mathematician Claus Peter Schnorr. If this turns out to be true, it will mean bad news for anybody who relies on the underpinnings of encryption – which is everyone! The paper, posted […]

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Discussion Paper Now Available about the New-IP Proposal https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/04/discussion-paper-now-available-about-the-new-ip-proposal/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:33:46 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=113617 In the run up to the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-20) later this year there has been some discussion about a proposal called the “New IP.” It is positioned as a top-down architecture to solve a number of use cases that are currently been developed in the ITU-T’s Future Network 2030 Focus Group. The Internet Society is carefully […]

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‘Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity’ Shows Everyone Can Contribute to Trust https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/01/major-initiatives-in-cybersecurity-shows-everyone-can-contribute-to-trust/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:14:25 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=109469

How do we work toward a more secure Internet? In the Cyber Security discussions that take place in the various policy fora around the world, there is often little appreciation that the security of the Internet is a distributed responsibility, where many stakeholders take action. By design, the Internet is a distributed system with no central […]

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Claudio Jeker Honored by Internet Security Research Group with Radiant Award https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/12/claudio-jeker-honored-by-internet-security-research-group-with-radiant-award/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:21:55 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=108519

This week another Radiant Award has been awarded by the Internet Security Research Group, the folks behind Let’s Encrypt. The award puts the limelight on the heroes who make the Internet more secure and trustworthy each day. The newest Radiant Award winner is Claudio Jeker, who receives the prize for his work of a BGP4 […]

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Rachel Player Honored by Internet Security Research Group with Radiant Award https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/11/rachel-player-honored-by-internet-security-research-group-with-radiant-award/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:43:37 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=107773

Internet security is accomplished by many unsung heroes. People who put their talent and passion into improving the Internet, making it secure and trustworthy. This is a feature of the Internet: security isn’t achieved through a central mandate but through the hard work and tenacity of individuals working across the globe. Rachel Player, a cryptographic […]

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Peace and Cyber Hygiene https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/11/peace-and-cyber-hygiene/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:36:48 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=107360

It doesn’t immediately make sense, does it: the terms peace and cyber hygiene in the same breath. Still, there is a reason why these two come together at the Paris Peace forum this week. That reason is simple though. Cyber hygiene – taking basic and common measures to secure software, devices, and networks – reduces […]

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WhatsApp: How a Bug Relates to the G7 https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/05/whatsapp-how-a-bug-relates-to-the-g7/ Tue, 14 May 2019 17:02:28 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=100658

On 13 May, more than a billion users saw the messaging application WhatsApp being updated. At the same time reports appeared that a vulnerability had been used in attacks that targeted an unknown but select number of users and was orchestrated by an advanced cyber actor. Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, reported it fixed a […]

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What Is the Internet Model of Networking? https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/03/what-is-the-internet-model-of-networking/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:36:59 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=96361

Fundamentally, the Internet model is that independent networks connect to one another and, all together, provide the global Internet. The independent networks may be enterprises with business services and employees connected to them, they may be cloud service providers or residential Internet service providers. They are independent in the way that they choose their business […]

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Jason Donenfeld Honored with the ISRG’s Radiant Award https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/12/jason-donenfeld-honored-with-the-isrgs-radiant-award/ Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:20:39 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=92013

Earlier this week Jason Donenfeld received the Radiant Award from the Internet Security Research Group. Jason is an accomplished engineer and a creative thinker, which makes his work clean, simple, and takes it a step beyond – most notably in WireGuard, an open-source secure VPN tunnel. We are proud to have enabled this award. Let […]

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Global Cybersecurity and the Internet Conundrum https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/11/global-cybersecurity-and-the-internet-conundrum/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:00:10 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=90949

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the first World War. The 1918 ceasefire re-introduced a fragile peace that had collapsed when the world failed to defend common rules and international cooperation. International security and stability are as important now as they were a century ago. That’s why French President Emmanuel Macron and […]

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Rough Guide to IETF 103 https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/10/rough-guide-to-ietf-103/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:44:31 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=89813

Starting next weekend, the Internet Engineering Task Force will be in Bangkok for IETF 103, where around 1,000 engineers will discuss open Internet standards and protocols. The week begins on Saturday, 3 November, with a Hackathon and Code Sprint. The IETF meeting itself begins on Sunday and goes through Friday. We’ll be providing our rough guides on topics of mutual […]

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The Facebook Breach: Some Lessons for the Internet https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/10/the-facebook-breach-some-lessons-for-the-internet/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:13:22 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=87949

Last week Facebook found itself at the heart of a security breach that put at risk the personal information of millions of users of the social network. On September 28, news broke that an attacker exploited a technical vulnerability in Facebook’s code that would allow them to log into about 50 million people’s accounts. While […]

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Strengthening Foundations for Creating Open Internet Standards https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/08/strengthening-foundations-for-creating-open-internet-standards/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:59:11 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=85545 The Internet Engineering Task Force has reached a significant milestone in the process of evolving its own administrative structure to best suit the current requirements of its work. After nearly two years of discussion about various options, the IETF community has created the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC), a new legal entity. Both the Internet Society’s […]

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TLS 1.3 – Internet Security Gets a Boost https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/08/internet-security-gets-a-boost/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 23:59:57 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=84474

Today marks the formal publication of an overhaul of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS is an Internet standard used to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery for various Internet applications. It is probably the most widely deployed network security standard in the world. Often indicated by the small green padlock in a web browser’s […]

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Rough Guide to IETF 102 https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/07/rough-guide-to-ietf-102/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:47:30 +0000 https://www.internetsociety.org/?p=82796

Starting next weekend, the Internet Engineering Task Force will be in Montreal for IETF 102, where over 1,000 engineers will discuss open Internet standards and protocols. The week begins on Saturday, 14 July, with a Hackathon and Code Sprint. The IETF meeting itself begins on Sunday and goes through Friday. We’ll be providing our rough guides […]

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