Network access security starts with a yes or a no Every zero-trust architecture rests on a yes/no admission decision that it assumes is working correctly. Alan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks The Financial Post ran a feature about me , under the headl... Industry Insights and Trends Network Security Best Practices Network Security Protocols
Is cybersecurity a good career? 30 years in the field Jana Sedivy has spent 30 years working on technology that most people never think about. She has some thoughts on whether women should go into the field that builds it. QA with Jana Sedivy, VP Custome... Industry Insights and Trends Network Security Best Practices
At IETF 126, AI emerged as the standards community’s spam problem Vienna was quiet on the RADIUS front. The AI problem was anything but. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks I was in Vienna for IETF 126 in July, and I came back thinking about spam. Starti... IETF and RADIUS Standards Industry Insights and Trends
Wi-Fi offload and OpenRoaming: What the track record tells us about seamless authentication Wi-Fi offload sounds simple – push mobile traffic onto cheap Wi-Fi. OpenRoaming and eduroam show exactly where it gets complicated. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks Wi-Fi offload (somet... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
The authentication foundation: How federation standards enable network convergence The promise of network convergence is one network for everything. Delivering it comes down to authentication: a single identity that works the same across Wi-Fi, broadband, and cellular. Alan DeKok, C... IETF and RADIUS Standards Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers
Why there are no real RADIUS alternatives Every few years, someone announces that RADIUS is dead. They are still wrong. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks The specifics vary. Sometimes the argument is that RADIUS is too old, rely... IETF and RADIUS Standards Industry Insights and Trends Network Security Protocols
Good engineering doesn’t need AI to fix it AI can optimise a poorly engineered network, but it can’t replace the engineering that should have been there in the first place. At Mobile World Congress this year, JSA TV sat down with Jana Sedivy, ... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
The real cost of free: What are the risks of open-source software? Open-source software is free to download - but that’s where the economics get interesting. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks The internet runs on open source. Google is built on it. Micr... Enterprises Industry Insights and Trends
Break-fix vs. managed services: Why per incident support costs more than you think You can't buy car insurance after the accident. Network support works the same way. ByAlan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks I've had a lot of conversations over 25 years with ISPs about support. One tha... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers Network Security Best Practices
The agentic AI governance gap at MWC 2026 Nine out of ten AI agents can be well-governed. The tenth can bring the whole thing down. That's the question MWC 2026 raised and couldn’t answer. ByJana Sedivy, VP Customer Experience Product, InkBri... Industry Insights and Trends
Open source is paying the price for AI agent governance failures An AI agent had its code rejected by an open-source maintainer, then autonomously published a hit piece on him. The governance frameworks that might have prevented this barely exist yet. ByJana Sedivy... Industry Insights and Trends Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
Mobile World Congress 2026: what ISPs and network operators should take away AI dominated the conversation at Mobile World Congress 2026, but the more interesting story was about who controls the infrastructure it runs on. I came back from Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelo... Industry Insights and Trends Internet Service Providers