Aftab Siddiqui joined the Internet Society (ISOC) as a Technical Engagement Manager in November 2016.
Prior to joining ISOC, Aftab worked as an Australian network integrator and at a Pakistani ISP. He has a strong technical and operational background. Mr. Siddiqui has been a key contributor to the global, regional, and local efforts in the APNIC community and has been an active participant in SANOG, APNIC/APRICOT and MENOG for many years. Aftab has increased participation and membership of ICANN's ASO and will be a technical resource to the APAC bureau and a member of the Internet Technology Office, focusing on Deploy360 efforts.
Aftab Siddiqui is located in Sydney Australia.
Latest posts
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
31 May 2018
APNIC Labs/CloudFlare DNS 1.1.1.1 Outage: Hijack or Mistake?
At 29-05-2018 08:09:45 UTC, BGPMon (A very well known BGP monitoring system to detect prefix hijacks, route leaks and instability)...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
27 April 2018
What Happened? The Amazon Route 53 BGP Hijack to Take Over Ethereum Cryptocurrency Wallets
Yesterday, we published a blog post sharing the news and some initial details about Amazon’s DNS route hijack event...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
6 March 2018
Routing Security BoF – APRICOT 2018
On Sunday, 25 February, the first day of APRICOT 2018, a “Routing Security BoF” (birds of a feather: An...
Technology
20 February 2018
Busy Week for MANRS, Routing Security, and More at APRICOT 2018
APRICOT 2018 is underway in in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as usual the Internet Society is an active participant in...
Deploy360
22 October 2017
PNG-IX Network Security Workshop
The Internet Society (Aftab Siddiqui) and APNIC (Tashi Phuntsho) jointly conducted a Network Security Workshop in Port Moresby, Papua...
Deploy360
16 October 2017
BGPSec – A reality now
The Secure Inter Domain Routing (SIDR) initiative held its first BoF at IETF 64 back in November 2005, and...