PACKET CAPTURE/ Week of July 1 - 3

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NEW PODCASTS

EP 485 | JULY 81, 2024

A Final FU for Greg

Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news, including Nokia acquiring optics maker Infinera, Broadcom bringing new features to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and more. | LISTEN NOW

SPONSORED | JULY 81, 2024

Why SD-WAN is the Secret to SASE Success

The rise of SASE has eclipsed SD-WAN as organizations develop strategies and analyze products for secure access. But SD-WAN is an essential component of SASE; in fact, sponsor Palo Alto Networks says SD-WAN is the most important component. On today’s Tech Bytes podcast we talk with Palo Alto Networks about why SD-WAN underpins a SASE offering. | LISTEN NOW

EP 077 | JULY 2, 2024

Should IT Lead or Follow?

The evolving role of IT in business is the topic of lively discussion between co-hosts Johna Johnson and John Burke.  Johna argues that IT should align with business goals, acting as an executive assistant, while John believes IT should take a proactive leadership role, driving innovation and framing business problems. They explore the challenges IT professionals face, including personality traits and the balance between elegant technical solutions and business priorities. | LISTEN NOW

EP 021 | JULY 2, 2024

Critical Vulnerabilities, AI-Assisted Scams, Compromised VPNs, and More Security News

It’s an all-news episode for this week’s Packet Protector podcast. We cover critical vulnerabilities in the MOVEit file transfer software and in thousands of ASUS routers, a remote code execution vulnerability in a Windows wireless driver that you really should patch, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 246 | JULY 3, 2024

Can Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Help Keep Users Happy?

Today’s Day Two Cloud explores SLOs, the relevant metrics, and how to measure them. We also talk about how SLOs are a cross-discipline objective (that is, not just one team’s responsibility), the personas that should be involved in the creation, negotiation, adjusting, and reviewing SLOs, and more. Our guest is Sal Furino, Reliability Engineer at Bloomberg. | LISTEN NOW

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FRESH BLOG POSTS

DAN MASSAMENO | JUNE 11, 2024

3 Cisco SD-Access Device Profiling, Part 2/2

Device Profiling is a huge topic when discussing Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).  If you can profile a device, you can then assign flexible Authorization Policies (AUTHZ) to a device. But sometimes devices can lie. In this post we look at how to deal with unauthenticated client material. READ NOW