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.
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Latest posts
Improving Technical Security
25 February 2019
RIRs Enhance Support for Routing Security
BGP hijacking and route leaks represent significant problems in the global Internet routing systems, along with source address spoofing....
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
15 November 2018
Route Leak Causes Major Google Outage
Google recently faced a major outage in many parts of the world thanks to a BGP leak. This incident...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
9 October 2018
Routing Security boosted by major network operators
There have been some important developments towards improving routing security over the past few weeks, with announcements at NLNOG...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
8 September 2018
Even Better MANRS During August
We already discussed the MANRS activities during SANOG 32 where we organised a Network Security Workshop and signed an...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
21 August 2018
SANOG 32 – Another Success Story for MANRS
The SANOG 32 meeting was held on 2-10 August 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which marked fifteen amazing years of collaboration...
Deploy360
6 July 2018
A Deeper Dive Into Public DNS Resolver Quad9
There are plenty of public DNS resolvers. The best known was Google Public DNS i.e. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for...