Application Programing Interfaces (API) are foundational to how most of today’s modern applications work. By design, they enable two systems to communicate and transfer information. When implemented correctly, we don’t realize we’re interfacing with APIs. They are, however, found in almost everything we interact with daily – websites, mobile apps, kiosks at malls and airports, […]
Category: NOC Products
Proactive Website Security with Custom Honeypots – A NOC Feature
Honeypotting is an art form and there are many different types of honeypots an organization can create. Regardless of the type of honeypot, they are designed to give bad actors a target within a controlled environment so that we can better understand their tactics and improve our own security. There should never be legitimate users […]
Introducing DNSRepo
For over a decade Daniel and I have been building very big networks. These networks have amassed massive amounts of usage data and for years it was what we used to get smarter about how we identified and mitigated attacks. When asked, what made us different, it was always about two things: Today, things are […]
Introducing Support for WebSockets
The NOC platform offers its customers a global CDN / WAF. This technology runs on an anycast network that has points of presence around the world. While anyone with a domain can use the platform, Agencies and Hosts get the most bang for their buck on our platform. We’re excited to announce support for WebSocket […]
Optimized Origin with the NOC CDN
A core component of setting up a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is defining the origin of the site. This origin is traditionally the IP address for the server that houses the site content. It’s where the CDN will be pulling content from. A few CDN’s even allow you to specify multiple origins, empowering admins to […]
Evolving the CDN / WAF Stack
A decade ago we built our first CDN/WAF solution. It was built from a need to keep websites from getting reinfected. At the time, our company was focused on identifying and remediating hacked websites. What we learned in the process is that it really doesn’t matter what you tell a website owner, they will rarely […]
Autodetecting Network Failures and Self-Healing To Ensure Optimal Availability
It’s midnight on a Saturday, you’re finally getting to that nice REM cycle. You’re on call, but it’s been a relatively quiet week. Besides, you feel good, you have done everything necessary to ensure that the web properties you are responsible for are operational. You have deployed redundant data centers, each on opposite ends of […]