Author Archives: Drew Conry-Murray
Author Archives: Drew Conry-Murray
The Tech Bytes podcast welcomes sponsor LiveAction, which provides network visibility and NDR products for network engineers. We’ll get an overview of LiveAction’s portfolio and take a closer look at new security capabilities in its ThreatEye Network Detection and Response product.
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Take a Network Break! This week we cover a lot of news including a new SONiC startup, Cisco and Microsoft teaming up on collaboration, new hardware from Google and Intel, a new SOC from Palo Alto Networks, space networking, and more.
The post Network Break 403: Startup Hedgehog Fuses SONiC And Kubernetes; Google, Intel Launch Mount Evans SmartNIC appeared first on Packet Pushers.
As carriers and service providers look to embrace disaggregated infrastructure and software, and drive new business through technologies such as network slicing, it’s critical to have management and orchestration capabilities to coordinate hardware and software resources in the RAN, the transport layer, and the network core. On today's sponsored Heavy Networking, sponsored by Juniper, we dive into Juniper's Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platform, which is designed to provision, manage and monetize custom network services on demand.
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Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we’re talking deception. That is, deceiving attackers that try to exploit your network by creating fake assets and infrastructure. Sponsor Fortinet is here to talk about using deception techniques to spot intruders via its FortiDeceptor product. We’ll also talk about threat reconnaissance capabilities of a product called FortiRecon. Our guest is Moshe Ben Simon, VP of Product Management.
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This week's Network Break podcast discusses new security capabilities from Aryaka, a Cisco/Microsoft partnership, the guilty verdict for Uber's former CSO, a startup tackling decentralized cell networks, and more tech news.
The post Network Break 402: Ex Uber Exec Guilty Of Breach Coverup; Startup Promotes Decentralized Cellular Networks appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Aryaka is introducing both a Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and a Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offering to complement its SD-WAN capabilities. Many vendors, including Aryaka, are extending their SD-WAN offering to include security functions delivered as-a-service via Points of Presence (PoPs) or public clouds. This as-a-service approach makes it easier for customers to consume security services because […]
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Today's Network Break covers three Google stories including Google Fiber's ambitions for multi-gig Internet and the killing of Stadia. We also discuss a rise in firewall sales, using plant-based materials in USB cables, and more IT news.
The post Network Break 401: Google Teases Multi-Gig Home Broadband; New USB Cables Use Slightly Less Plastic appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we dive into new features of Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator, or NSO. NSO is a network orchestration platform for large enterprises and service providers that offers multi-vendor automation, configuration management, service creation, ongoing monitoring and upgrades, and more.
The post Heavy Networking 649: Cisco NSO 6.0 Boosts Performance, Improves Usability (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.
This week's Network Break podcast covers a startup backed by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers, US federal agencies wanting service providers to get serious about BGP security, SASE growing 30% in a quarter, a thriving floppy disk business, and more IT news.
The post Network Break 400: Ex-Cisco CEO Launches Network Startup; The Persistence Of Floppy Disks appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Encrypted traffic poses a problem for enterprise policy enforcement. On today's Heavy Networking, we explore the notion of zero knowledge middleboxes, which use a variety of techniques to allow firewalls or other middleboxes to enforce policy without the need for decryption. Our guest is Dr. Paul Grubbs, whose research into zero knowledge middleboxes prompted this episode.
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A startup called Veego is pitching an end user experience service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to help providers offer better tech support to customers. The question is, are ISPs interested in customer service?
The post Startup Veego Targets ISP Customer Service With An End User Experience Package appeared first on Packet Pushers.