How to Improve Employee Morale
We are going through a situation that is unprecedented and heart-breaking. There are so many emotions attached to the situation right now that if you started naming them one by one, it would take you a significant amount of time. The world is crumbling apart, and the worst part is that most people have to work to provide for their families. It doesn’t matter if they are working from home or the office, anxieties and stress are increasing and you can do nothing about it.
The work is increasing, the health situation is deteriorating, and there is too much uncertainty. Which is why companies, like ours, are working to promote ways in which you can help boost your employee’s morale.
When you ask the question, “How to Improve Employee Morale”, we make sure that we provide you with the exact results which can help you. You can also visit our website to see the many products available to you.
Here are just a couple of ways in which you can boost your employee’s morale.
Be Transparent
What your employees need more than anything in the world right now is transparency. They need to know what is going on and what Continue reading
IPv6 Buzz 071: IPv6 And SD-WAN
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss how IPv6 fits into the SD-WAN picture and some of the considerations of deploying IPv6 with this networking technology.
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IPv6 Buzz 071: IPv6 And SD-WAN
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss how IPv6 fits into the SD-WAN picture and some of the considerations of deploying IPv6 with this networking technology.Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Tech Recruiter – Friend Or Foe? – Video
Our Day Two Cloud podcast guest is Taylor Desseyn, Sr. Recruiter Advocate at Vaco. Taylor knows tech recruiting forwards and backwards. He gives us an insider’s view of how recruiters look at you and how you should look at them to maximize the benefit of the relationship. Because it IS a relationship. And like any […]
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The Hedge #74: Brian Keys and the Complexity of User Interfaces
Crossing from the domain of test pilots to the domain of network engineering might seem like a large leap indeed—but user interfaces and their tradeoffs are common across physical and virtual spaces. Brian Keys, Eyvonne Sharp, Tom Ammon, and Russ White as we start with user interfaces and move into a wider discussion around attitudes and beliefs in the network engineering world.
Deconstructing Defray777 Ransomware
Contributors: Sebastiano Mariani • Stefano Ortolani • Baibhav Singh • Giovanni Vigna • Jason Zhang • Brian Baskin • George Allen • Scott Knight
Recently, reports surfaced describing ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers. While many of these attacks were initially based upon credential theft, the goal was to unleash one of a series of ransomware families, including Defray777 and Darkside, to encrypt the files associated with virtualized hosts.
These families of ransomware are related to examples that the VMware Threat Research teams had seen previously in the wild. Specifically, based upon their ransom notes and file extensions, they appeared to be variants of the RansomEXX ransomware family. In the second half of 2020 these variants of ransomware, including Defray777, have been witnessed targeting both Windows and Linux systems.
These attacks also leveraged several ancillary tools such as downloaders, RATs, and exploitation tools to obtain initial access to a system and spread within the target network.
In the following, we provide a technical description of the Defray777 ransomware and a brief discussion of the other components that have been observed in combination with this malware sample.
What is Defray777?
The version of Defray777 analyzed here is a Linux-based, command-line driven ransomware attack that employs Continue reading
SuzieQ with Dinesh Dutt and Justin Pietsch
In this episode, we talk with Dinesh Dutt, former Cisco Fellow & Cumulus Chief Scientist, and Justin Pietsch, former AWS veteran, about SuzieQ. SuzieQ is an open source network observability platform they launched last year. We talk about the general problem space of network monitoring and how the industry needs better tools to understand operational state data.
Reference Links:
- https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq
- https://suzieq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://elegantnetwork.github.io/index.html
Dinesh Dutt
Guest
Justin Pietsch
Guest
Jason Edelman
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
Over three years ago, we embraced the ARM ecosystem after evaluating the Qualcomm Centriq. The Centriq and its Falkor cores delivered a significant reduction in power consumption while maintaining a comparable performance against the processor that was powering our server fleet at the time. By the time we completed porting our software stack to be compatible with ARM, Qualcomm decided to exit the server business. Since then, we have been waiting for another server-grade ARM processor with hopes to improve our power efficiencies across our global network, which now spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries.
ARM has introduced the Neoverse N1 platform, the blueprint for creating power-efficient processors licensed to institutions that can customize the original design to meet their specific requirements. Ampere licensed the Neoverse N1 platform to create the Ampere Altra, a processor that allows companies that own and manage their own fleet of servers, like ourselves, to take advantage of the expanding ARM ecosystem. We have been working with Ampere to determine whether Altra is the right processor to power our first generation of ARM edge servers.
The AWS Graviton2 is the only other Neoverse N1-based processor publicly accessible, but only made Continue reading
Topology- and Congestion-Driven Load Balancing
When preparing an answer to an interesting idea left as a comment to my unequal-cost load balancing blog post, I realized I never described the difference between topology-based and congestion-driven load balancing.
To keep things simple, let’s start with an easy leaf-and-spine fabric:
Topology- and Congestion-Driven Load Balancing
When preparing an answer to an interesting idea left as a comment to my unequal-cost load balancing blog post, I realized I never described the difference between topology-based and congestion-driven load balancing.
To keep things simple, let’s start with an easy leaf-and-spine fabric:
About the March 8 & 9, 2021 Verkada camera hack
Cloudflare uses a vendor called Verkada for cameras in our offices in San Francisco, Austin, New York, London and Singapore. These cameras are used at the entrances, exits and main thoroughfares of our offices and have been part of maintaining the security of offices that have been closed for almost a year.
Yesterday, we were notified of a breach of Verkada that allowed a hacker to access Verkada’s internal support tools to manage those cameras remotely, as well as access them through a remote root shell. As soon as we were notified of the breach, we proceeded to shut down the cameras in all our office locations to prevent further access.
To be clear: this hack affected the cameras and nothing else. No customer data was accessed, no production systems, no databases, no encryption keys, nothing. Some press reports indicate that we use a facial recognition feature available in Verkada. This is not true. We do not.
Our internal systems follow the same Zero Trust model that we provide to our customers, and as such our corporate office networks are not implicitly trusted by our other locations or data centers. From a security point of view connecting from one of Continue reading
80/20 Rule For SaaS and IaaS
In this episode we discuss the 80/20 rule for SaaS and IaaS, what it is according to Vince, and why you should care. Is this a temporary phenomenon due to the pandemic and WFH or is it how we should view WAN traffic from now on? We’ll answer that question and more in this episode.
Reference Links:
Brandon Carroll
Host
Phil Gervasi
Host
Vince Berk
Host
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