PACKET CAPTURE / Week of Feb 24 - March 1, 2024

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NEW PODCASTS

EP 467 | FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More AI Assistants Emerge; Nvidia’s AI Goldmine Spurs New Competitors

We cover the latest financial reports for the big names in networking, the newest AI assistants on the market, fundraising efforts to develop AI chip companies, and much more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 003 | FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An Insider’s Look At Security Certs

What are the best cybersecurity certs to get? Do advancements in cloud and AI mean security professionals need to re-skill? How do certifying organizations decide what new courses to create? Chief Curriculum Director and Faculty Lead at the SANS Institute, Rob Lee, joins Jennifer “JJ” Minella and Drew Conry-Murray to give an insider’s view on the current state of workforce development for security professionals. Plus: A quick look at PixieFail and a report on the security risks with LLMs. | LISTEN NOW

EP 235 | FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Building Modern Apps In GovCloud

Chances are, you’ve probably only heard of GovCloud because at the bottom of new feature releases from the Big 3 there’s usually an asterisk that says “not yet available in GovCloud.” So what is GovCloud? And why does it not get the newest shiny thing as fast as the rest of us? Chris Wahl has built an app on GovCloud and is here to tell us all about it.  | LISTEN NOW

EP 049 | FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Security Frameworks, Tools, and Strategies for Kubernetes

Kubernetes is designed to be highly scalable and highly dynamic… a perfect habitat for cryptominers to terminal shell into and then exploit your workload’s resources to the max. And that’s just one example of security threats Kubernetes users need to prepare against. Nigel Douglas from Sysdig joins Michael Levan and Kristina Devochko to give you specific tools and strategies both for “shift left” and “shield right” in Kubernetes.| LISTEN NOW

EP 723 | MARCH 1, 2024

‘It’s Like Legos’: Developing a Network Automation Framework

Ryan Shaw and David Sinn join the show to tell us about the framework they’re creating with their colleagues over at the Network Automation Forum. Their goal is to define a complete set of building blocks for an approach to an automation architecture that has enough details for a company to build standardized solutions themselves. Hosts Andrew Conry-Murray and Ethan Banks pepper them with questions including Ethan’s favorite: “Will networkers need to re-architect their networks to use this framework?” | LISTEN NOW

FRESH BLOG POSTS

RUSS WHITE | FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Secure Network Design Starts with Segmentation

Security breaches aren't just an application issue for developers to fix. Network designs can help secure systems and reduce the impact of a breach. | READ NOW