Cloudflare 10 min
A practical, opinionated walkthrough for rolling out Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall on a real domain โ start in monitor mode, layer in protections, set up alerting on spikes, and why OWASP Core Ruleset is usually a mistake.
May 12, 2026
Networking 8 min
How a 2018 BGP hijack redirected Amazon Route 53 traffic, harvested private keys from MyEtherWallet users, and stole $152K in Ethereum โ BGP and DNS weaknesses chained.
May 24, 2025
Networking 6 min
How a government censorship order, a leaked more-specific route, and one upstream provider that didn't filter turned into a global internet outage that took YouTube offline for nearly two hours in 2008 โ and what it proved about BGP's fundamental trust problem.
May 23, 2025
Cloudflare 12 min
A step-by-step guide to enabling DNSSEC on parent and child domains in Cloudflare โ why order matters, how DS records connect the chain of trust, and why using Cloudflare as both your registrar and DNS provider makes this dramatically easier.
May 15, 2025
Cloudflare 7 min
A clear, high-level breakdown of DNSSEC โ the problem it solves, how cryptographic signing creates a chain of trust from the root zone down to your domain, and why every DNS owner should understand it.
May 14, 2025
Cloudflare 4 min
How Cloudflare's Advanced Bot Protection works, what automated threats it stops, and best practices for deploying it without blocking legitimate bots or real users.
May 9, 2025
Cloudflare 1 min
How Cloudflare Tunnel lets you expose internal services securely without punching holes in your firewall.
Apr 20, 2025
Networking 3 min
BGP was built for trust, not security. RPKI fixes that by cryptographically validating route origins โ here's how to deploy it on Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS.
Apr 15, 2025
Networking 2 min
A breakdown of the latest DDoS trends โ record-breaking volumetric attacks, HTTP/2 exploits, and how AI is shifting both offense and defense.
Apr 5, 2025
Networking 2 min
How AI is transforming threat detection, anomaly identification, and automated response in modern network security operations.
Mar 28, 2025