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A Year in Internet Analysis: 2022

This past year was another busy one for the internet. In this blog post, I will highlight some of the top pieces of analysis that we published in the past 12 months. This analysis employs Kentik’s data, technology, and expertise to inform the industry and the public about issues involving the technical underpinnings of the global internet and how global events can impact connectivity. These posts are organized into two broad categories: major internet disruptions and BGP routing security.

Goodbye LAN. The Internet is the Network.

We are at the cusp of an important technology transformation. A discontinuity in technology as Peter Drucker would call it (precipitated by Covid). For decades, IT organizations invested in building, managing, and monitoring LANs. Everything was on your local network: your CRM, your Exchange email, the file shares, and the print server. Today, many companies are shutting down their “old legacy network” and are running their enterprise without a LAN, WAN, or an OnPrem datacenter.

Governance, Risk and Compliance for MSPs in 2023

RedLin Murphy, N-able’s head of Governance, Risk and Complaince, as well as Dave MacKinnon, N-able’s Chief Security Officer discuss current and upcoming regulations that do or could impact MSP’s, what you can do to prepare for these things as cyber governance continues to at both the state and federal levels.