Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients.

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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 13, 2023

Key transparency solutions help strengthen the guarantee that end-to-end encryption provides to private, personal messaging applications in a transparent manner available to all. It is among the most widely used deployments of end-to-end encryption and relies on public key cryptography first developed in the 1970s.

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InfoQ Articles

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, they are more difficult to manage than the application layer, since Kubernetes is designed for stateless applications. Apache ShardingSphere is the ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system and enhance it with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features, and more. By Trista Pan.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As part of WhatsApp’s new feature to privately add and manage your contacts on WhatsApp across linked devices, we’re announcing a novel encrypted storage system we’ve designed called Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS). IPLS is a novel system at WhatsApp that allows users to store their contact names in an encrypted way.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Now, applications built using Cloudflare Calls and OpenAIs Realtime API can now support multiple users across the globe simultaneously seeing and interacting with a voice or video AI. There are similar opportunities if your application is built for consumers: broadcasts and global livestreams can become much more interactive.

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Cloudera Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Enterprise developers began exploring proof of concepts (POCs) for generative AI applications, leveraging API services and open models such as Llama 2 and Mistral. Businesses are now allocating dedicated budgets and building infrastructure to support AI applications in real-world environments.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A growing percentage of Internet traffic is protected by encryption. According to Google , approximately 95% of web browsing uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol. This trend toward traffic encryption has been driven by a few different factors. The move toward data encryption is a mixed blessing for cybersecurity.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 6, 2024

We’re sharing how we enabled third-party interoperability (interop) while maintaining end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and other privacy guarantees in our services as far as possible. WhatsApp and Messenger both use the tried and tested Signal protocol as a foundational piece for their encryption.

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ByteByteGo

JANUARY 25, 2025

Youtube video) The Ultimate API Learning Roadmap 30 Useful AI Apps That Can Help You in 2025 10 Essential Components of a Production Web Application How do we design effective and safe APIs? Here’s a roadmap that covers the most important topics: Introduction to APIs API is a set of protocols and tools for building applications.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how encryption is shaping network performance monitoring (NPM). Unless the complaint is coming from all remote users of an application, individuals suffering from slowness are on their own to figure out how to optimize connection speeds. Let’s dive in deeper now…. API testing.

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InfoQ Articles

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Securing cell-based architecture is essential to fully capitalize on its benefits while minimizing risks. To achieve this, comprehensive security measures must be put in place. Organizations can start by isolating and containing cells using sandbox environments and strict access control mechanisms like role-based and attribute-based access control.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Identities of entities can be associated with people, groups of people (branch offices), devices, applications, services, IoT systems or edge computing locations. In short, SASE is meant to be one holistic platform for the complete network, covering all edges, all traffic, and all applications, i.e., the entities in the definition above.

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InfoQ Articles

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Obfuscation is often mistaken with encryption, but they are different concepts. In this article, we introduce the topic of code obfuscation, with emphasis on string obfuscation. Obfuscation is an important practice to protect source code by making it unintelligible. By Michael Haephrati, Ruth Haephrati.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The new Cato Management Application that we announced today certainly brings a scalable, powerful interface. We enhanced security reporting with an all-new threats dashboard and opened up application performance with another new dashboard. Behind the Cato Management Application is a completely rearchitected backend.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Todays roundup blog post shares two exciting updates across our platform: our cross-platform 1.1.1.1 & WARP applications (consumer) and device agents (Zero Trust) now use MASQUE , a cutting-edge HTTP/3 -based protocol, to secure your Internet connection. Additionally, DEX is now available for general availability.

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Juniper

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, the bad news is that this new era also brings the ability to break current VPN encryption algorithms. One fundamental issue is that we wont truly know how quantum-resistant these algorithms are until widespread application of quantum computing. Hybrid PQC is one such approach.

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AWS Architecture

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. Application developers should focus on delivering business value efficiently, rather than navigating the complexities of building and operating distributed architectures while adhering to organizational best practices.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 22, 2024

In the future, significant advances in quantum computing will make it possible for adversaries to decrypt stored data that was encrypted using today’s cryptosystems. How Meta is approaching the migration to PQC Meta’s applications are used by billions of people every day. Existing algorithms have reliably secured data for a long time.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Shadow AI lurks in the background for organizations Shadow AI refers to the unauthorized or unsanctioned use of AI applications and tools within an organization without the knowledge or approval of IT departments or security teams. However, TLS inspection can break applications and access to some domains.

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Cloudera Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

However, a few foundational components are needed to make this possible: Unified Runtime : Run applications and manage data seamlessly across environments without extensive rewrites. Data Encryption: Organizations encrypt data both in transit and at rest to prevent unauthorized access.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In cybersecurity, Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ) has emerged as a pivotal solution, ensuring secure access to applications regardless of user location. Benefits of ZTNA ZTNA enhances enterprise security by ensuring only authenticated and authorized users can access specific applications. What is ZTNA?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 29, 2018

Few enterprises can risk sacrificing application performance and worker productivity in exchange for lowering their telecom costs. We run an encrypted software-defined overlay across all the backbone segments of our cloud infrastructure. There are too few good routes available. Which Tradeoff to Choose? But whats the alternative?

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This blog post goes over: The complexities that users will run into when self-managing Apache Kafka on the cloud and how users can benefit from building event streaming applications with a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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Cloudera Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The Role of AI in Banking 2024 continues to witness the rapid development of AI and its applications, with GenAI leading the charge. Gartner’s predictions also estimate 80% of enterprises will adopt GenAI APIs and models or deploy GenAI-enabled applications in production environments by 2028. trillion to US$4.4

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CATO Networks

MAY 12, 2022

TLS is designed to increase security by encrypting data end-to-end between two points, ideally preventing bad actors from having visibility into the traffic of your web session. However, threat actors have also come to see the value in utilizing TLS encryption for delivering malware and evading security controls.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Special application solutions we offer include: CDN - We provide load-balanced application delivery and backup solutions that leverage nationwide networks provided by large ISPs, IDC centers, distributed by region.

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AWS Architecture

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we highlight must-see sessions for those building resilient applications and architectures on AWS. Cloud resilience refers to the ability for an application to resist or recover from disruptions, including those related to infrastructure, dependent services, misconfigurations, transient network issues, and load spikes.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 18, 2022

Immediate Loss of Productivity Organizations depend almost entirely on data and applications for their daily operations, including making payments, creating products and delivering and shipping them. One of the ways attackers gain these amounts is encrypting organizational data, and requiring a payment for instructions on how to decrypt it.

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Confluent

JULY 31, 2019

If you’re like most users, chances are that Confluent Platform is rapidly becoming the new standard for integrating your data and applications to uncover new insights about your business, build real-time customer experiences, and create new business models. Automate Kafka operations for production environments.

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CATO Networks

JULY 20, 2021

Sidewalks new encryption method Doing encryption right is not an easy task, especially when introducing new methods. While Amazon promises its triple encryption will make data transfer safe, their new methodology has not been battle tested yet. This is not behavior enterprises would expect from their devices.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Office 365 Built-In Applications Microsoft has built several of its applications into Team so all tools are accessible on the spot. Teams was built off the basis of Office 365 Groups cross-application that allows users to share and preserve information across different applications.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

In many infrastructures, the inflection points are at the network edge, where VPN gateways authenticate and encrypt remote-access traffic. More advanced VPNs can do this by application type. NetOps teams today are contending with a surge in traffic coming from remote employees, and businesses are relying on them to ensure productivity.

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CATO Networks

MAY 18, 2023

CISAs Zero Trust Maturity Model helps enterprises measure this journey based on five pillars: Identity, Devices, Networks, Applications and Data. Pillar 3: Network/Environment To achieve the zero trust principles of Network Segmentation, Threat Protection and Encryption, a new, dynamic architecture is required.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

Those stakeholders can include members of management, security analysts, network engineers, application owners, and even your external partners (MSPs, VoIP, ISPs, etc.). This data, combined with application and user awareness information, will offer a detailed view of your environment.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The benefit now is that these policies can be built out and managed using a familiar NGFW GUI, and traffic can be inspected using UTM (Unified Threat Management) features such as Antivirus (AV), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Web and Application content filtering. INTERESTED IN VIEWING THE WEBINAR VIDEO ON THIS TOPIC?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues. Any SD-WAN should build a virtual overlay of encrypted tunnels between locations.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Double Extortion: Double extortion ransomware both steals and encrypts sensitive and valuable data on an infected system. Lateral Movement: Ransomware rarely immediately lands on a device containing the high-value data that it plans to encrypt. This model increased the number of companies infected with high-quality ransomware.

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