EP 520 | MARCH 31, 2025

When Good LLMs Do Bad Things, Dell’s Workforce Downsizes and Quantum Key Distribution From Space

Grab a virtual doughnut to blaze through this week’s IT news with Johna Johnson and John Burke as Drew Conry-Murray is enjoying his glazed, filled and sprinkled vacation donuts.  Today, we're going to talk about getting good LLMs to do bad things, Dell's workforce downsizing, Cloudflare's recent outage, some developments in space networking, and more. | LISTEN NOW

EP 056 | APRIL 1, 2025

Ask A CISO with Joe Evangelisto

On today’s show, we chat with Joe Evangelisto, CISO at NetSPI. He recounts his journey to becoming a Chief Information Security Officer, one that started as an IT sysadmin, advanced to management, and led him ultimately to the CISO role. Joe talks about building security programs from the ground up and developing both personally and professionally. Joe also shares insights he’s gained about being a leader. To Joe, IT security leadership is not only about running and nurturing teams, but also advocating for the necessity of a security practice in advancing business goals across the organization. | LISTEN NOW

EP 099 | APRIL 1, 2025

From CLI to CFO: Translating Complex Network Data into Clear Strategic and Financial Insights (Sponsored)

IT and network leaders need more than uptime—they need to know what their networks cost, what they deliver, and how future changes will impact the business. That’s where Netos comes in. CEO and founder Richard Foster joins Johna and John in a lively discussion to explore how Netos turns complex operational data into clear financial insights. From identifying cost savings and enriching the network inventory to modeling project outcomes and justifying budgets, Netos informs both IT and financial teams. Built on NetBox, Netos helps Network Managers and technical leaders align with business goals through a single, intuitive platform. | LISTEN NOW

EP 049 | APRIL 1, 2025

Updates on Wi-Fi Security, Wi-Fi 7 and WPA3

Host Keith Parsons and guest Stephen Orr took time at the Wireless LAN Professionals Conference in Phoenix this past February to discuss the security implications of Wi-Fi 7. Stephen explains that new features in Wi-Fi 7 require specific security protocols such as WPA3 to function. Challenges with device onboarding and secure authentication are addressed next, because your legacy infrastructure might not be able to cope with what Wi-Fi 7 is bringing. Stephen wraps it up with advice on balancing security with interoperability, because the choices you make will affect connectivity of future IoT and other network devices. | LISTEN NOW

EP 268 | APRIL 2, 2025

Solving Big Problems by Solving Small Problems

“You build a shop that solves big problems by solving small problems” is advice given by today’s guest, Merritt Baer. Merritt is currently a CISO at Reco, and has deep security experience in both government and private sectors. She chats with Day Two DevOps podcast hosts Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton to discuss the current state of security, the real and unique security risks of AI for businesses, the inability to secure what isn't known, and the realization that you don’t have to know everything as long as you keep learning. | LISTEN NOW

EP 020 | APRIL 3, 2025

To Cert Or Not To Cert?

To cert or not to cert? That is the question Holly & Ethan discuss on today’s episode. Will a certification really land you a networking job? Are certs the guaranteed path to tech career success? We consider this, talking through the benefits, challenges and even risks of networking industry certification. And there's some bonus material, too: how Ethan funded his first certifications and how that really worked out. | LISTEN NOW

EP 172 | APRIL 3, 2025

IPv6 SMB - Does it Work? Plus Other Listener Questions!

On today’s episode we’re doing some follow up on listener comments and questions that have come in via the Follow Up on packetpushers.net. We cover questions regarding IPv6 for small businesses, then go even smaller and answer a question about IPv6 for home networks. Lastly, we have a quick discussion about Path MTU discovery with IPv6 (spoiler: we’re planning a whole episode on this topic in the future). | LISTEN NOW

EP 023 | APRIL 4, 2025

The Third Phase of Networking - The Network Operator Experience

Guest Chris Grundemann believes that NetOps is in the third phase of networking--improving the network operator experience. Not just making the network functional or improving end user experience.

In this episode, Chris tells his origin story at a wireless service provider and growth into a founder of multiple companies. He also shares his community-focused work with the Internet Society and Network Automation Forum. Chris believes network automation is shaping the future of NetOps by making network engineers more efficient and productive. | LISTEN NOW

EP 775 | APRIL 4, 2025

How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot

On today’s Heavy Networking, we’ll discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organization’s knowledge. The potential use cases for network operations are fascinating, and today’s guest, Kyler Middleton is here to explain the finer details on how to do it and point us to free resources created so that anyone can build an AI-enabled Slackbot, too. | LISTEN NOW