How to Design Self-service Network Analytics into Your Services

We recently blogged on why network insight is essential for communications service consumers, including why self-service portals are increasingly important for today’s network and network operators. In that blog post, we looked at self-service portals from an end-user standpoint. At Kentik, we believe in curated, actionable insight catering to different user personas across organizations. So, in this post, we will look into these portals in terms of design considerations for service providers. If you are a service provider or enterprise and have decided to provide your customers with traffic visibility into their networks, amongst many other decisions you may find yourself thinking about:

Differentiation
Speed of delivery and deployment

Read the blog post over at Kentik over here.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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