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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

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link] A cable landing station, or CLS, is chosen because the location typically has less marine traffic than much busier port cities. However, the overall system of submarine telecommunications cables is less like a global public utility and much more like the global airline industry, with private airlines sharing the cost for airports.

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How Kentik reduces the likelihood of a full-blown cyber-attack before it happens

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One of Kentik’s airline customers was impressed that our threat feed picked up one of their internal tools scanning across their AWS VPCs, where none of their other monitoring tools alerted them on the traffic patterns. Well, if you see SSH connections over port 22 still happening, it is worth investigating.