How to scale eduroam RADIUS across multiple sites The hardest problems in running eduroam at national scale have almost nothing to do with RADIUS. They are problems of architecture. Alan DeKok, CEO and Founder, InkBridge Networks Running eduroam RADI... Education Network Architecture
Why there is no FreeRADIUS GUI There is no official FreeRADIUS GUI. Here is what does exist, what it will and will not do for you, and why the missing piece is unnecessary. Jana Sedivy, VP Customer Experience Product, InkBridge Net... FreeRADIUS Technical Guides Industry Insights and Trends
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
Rebuilding ISP authentication helped Herotel add 150,000 subscribers When Herotel needed RADIUS authentication that could survive South Africa's power grid and scale past a million subscribers, three engineering firsts came with it. Herotel is a South African fibre and... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
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
Network security architecture lessons from a ten-year breach A ten-year intrusion that replaced the authentication stack entirely, and what it tells you about the shortfalls in network security architecture. By Alan DeKok, CEO, InkBridge Networks When forensic ... Network Architecture Network Security Best Practices Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
Why RADIUS failover fails and what’s being done about it A single misbehaving device can take an entire institution offline. At the RADIUS Conference Workshop 2026, the people who build and operate RADIUS spent a day working through why, and what to do abou... IETF and RADIUS Standards Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
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