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Dear INEX members,  Our Irish National Cyber Security Centre held a webinar on October 20th on NIS2 – EU Critical Infrastructure law transposing currently into Irish Statutes for Oct 24th 2024 go live. A. RECORDING of the  webinar can be viewed at https://www.ncsc.gov.ie/nis2/B. QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES FOR NIS2 (DIRECTIVE FOR A HIGH COMMON LEVEL OF CYBERSECURITY ACROSS THE UNION GUIDE:  https://www.ncsc.gov.ie/pdfs/NCSC_NIS2_Guide.pdf C. NIS2 AWARENESS RAISING MATERIAL in advance of the national transposition of NIS2, a number…

Dear INEX members,  October 2023 is European CyberSecurity month.  Brendan Ring of NCSC, the Irish National Cyber Security Centre https://www.ncsc.gov.ie kindly issued the following webinar invitation to INEX members, many of whom are subject to this legislation.   Jan 23 started the Irish implementation of NIS2D Directive EU 2022/2555 measures for a high common level of Cybersecurity across the Union, expected adoption by Oct 2024.  .  “NIS 2 implementation – a preview”  register here :https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Uo5Ab6wUSWOTCa9sjVgTtg#/registration The webinar is…

Shout out to GRNET for responsibly disclosing a number of XSS issues (now fixed on v6.3.1 launched today) and highlighting how important the community aspect of IXP Manager is. A community of 209 IXPs around the world that benefit from using and interacting with the platform.

1783047576833935200 bytes was the total volume of traffic over INEX in 2022. 1.78 exabytes, not a small figure! Thank you to all our wonderful members for entrusting their internet traffic to INEX, the internet peering point for the island of Ireland. We are delighted to be able to support our members delivering their customers with fast, resilient and competitive service so they can enjoy videos, movies, music, games, dreams, research, photos…

We are currently working on the EOLAS 2023 offering. If you have any suggestions/ideas please email eolas@inex.ie

The European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) shared their concerns about the network fees idea in the fair share debate with European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner Thierry Breton. Read the full letter here – https://lnkd.in/eYuJYJES

1 Tbps of traffic at INEX tonight (13th Dec 22) for the first time ever! Thanks to all the brilliant members for entrusting their internet traffic to INEX, the internet peering point for the island of Ireland. On 15th October 2007 INEX reached 1Gpbs of traffic for the first time. That’s 15 years, 1 month and 28 days ago seeing as you’re asking.

INEX is pleased to announce the release of IXP Manager v6.3.0. This release brings enhanced security features as well as various enhancements and bug fixes. We recommend all IXPs that use IXP Manager upgrade to this new version. Full details on all the updates to IXP Manager v6.3.0 can be found here https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/releases/tag/v6.3.0. Thank you to the IT Consultancy and their internationally respected cyber security and risk assessor that uses IXP Manager…

INEX is pleased to announce the election of 6 members to its Board of Directors following the member voting at last Thurday’s (28th July) AGM. Welcome and welcome back to: Annemette Broch (Westnet), Shane Hartigan (Integrated Media Solutions), Michele Neylon (Blacknight), Brian Nisbet (HEAnet), Tom Strickx (Cloudflare) and Jerry Sweeney (CloudCIX). Thank you all for your decision to stand for the INEX Board, this is a generous commitment to both…