Senior Director Product Management, Neustar Internet Infrastructure Services
Joined on August 15, 2010 – United States
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Rick Rumbarger is a nationally recognized technology insider with over 20yrs experience working on a variety of core infrastructure technologies for consumer, business, and government oriented organizations. He currently leads the product management group for Neustar UltraDNS. He has also created and lead successful teams of professionals in product development, product marketing, strategic procurement, and IT operations. He has extensive experience in hosted services (SaaS), telecommunications, energy, and professional consulting related verticals.
Unlike traditional attacks by hackers which breach a business's security systems, resulting in defaced websites, intellectual property theft and/or customer data theft, a DDoS attack focuses on making a business's Internet connected infrastructure (e.g. web servers, email servers, database servers, FTP servers, APIs, etc.) unavailable to legitimate users. A business's brand reputation, which can take years to establish, can be swept away in just a few hours from a single DDoS attack in the same way a natural disaster like a flood or earthquake can impact a traditional brick and mortar business. more»
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to think that DNSSEC being so hot these days is a mixed blessing. Yes, it's wonderful that after so many years there is finally broad consensus for making DNSSEC happen. But being so prominent also means the protocol is taking shots from those who don't want to make the necessary software, hardware and operational modifications needed. And DNSSEC has taken some shots from those who just want to be contrarian. more»
Most everyone who visits CircleID is familiar with Moore's Law, which stated simply holds that computing power doubles every 18 months. This has been going on since the 1960s and shows no sign of slowing. Moore's Law drives faster and faster computing, which produces more and more data and network complexity. This inexorable trend is putting immense pressure on corporate networks, and the strain is too much for many of them to handle on their own. more»
