“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” This comic is from 20-odd years ago, when the best way to access data on a remote system was to copy the files from host to host using IP addresses and SLIP protocols. Back then, it was pretty much true: no one knew your identity, and all…

(Sponsor post by Kevin Dohrmann, CTO at Cosentry) You can’t throw a rendered CGI rock on the internet without hitting some sort of video streaming service. According to a recent report from Sandvine, Netflix (35 percent) and YouTube (18 percent) account for more than half of all the traffic on the Internet in North America.…