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)
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...
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
20 June 2018
Working Together with APNIC on Routing Security and MANRS in Asia Pacific
The Internet Society and APNIC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in supporting the MANRS initiative in...
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)...