Heavy Networking 577: A Customer View On Cloud-Delivered Security For Streamlining Distributed Workforces (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking gets into cloud-delivered security for user access. We're sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, and we'll talk about its Prisma Access service with a customer: Josh Dye, SVP at Jefferies Group. We discuss how Josh pivoted to Prisma Access during the pandemic, how he meets strict security and regulatory requirements for financial services, and more.
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GlobalFoundries Sharpens Photonics Edge for Quantum Manufacturing
Chip manufacturing giant, GlobalFoundaries, has struck up a unique arrangement with an ambitious quantum startup to share knowledge that could help turn standard photonics processing technology into a qubit factory. …
GlobalFoundries Sharpens Photonics Edge for Quantum Manufacturing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins
It has been a long time coming. Over two years, in fact. …
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Technology Short Take 140
Welcome to Technology Short Take #140! It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of May 2021—my how time flies! In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Let’s jump right into the content!
Networking
- Ivan Pepelnjak takes a look at why you might want to use Azure Route Server, followed by pulling back the covers on how Azure Route Server works.
- Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking.
- Michael Kashin combines networking and programming in this post on getting started with eBPF and Go.
- This post on isolated networks on AWS takes a pretty comprehensive look at what’s required to build isolated AWS networks, including a look at potential data exfiltration paths.
Servers/Hardware
- Ben Wilcock shares his experience with an Intel NUC 11.
- VentureBeat discusses Armv9, a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs.
Security
- Peyton Smith and Mitchell Moser share seven common Microsoft Active Directory misconfigurations that adversaries tend to abuse.
- Paulos Continue reading
Knowledge is Powerful and Needs to Be Shared
A tweet this morning from my friend Stephanie stood out in my timeline because she’s talking about something I’ve seen happen over and over again in my lifetime:
Y’all remember the coworker who always hoarded knowledge because they thought it would give them job security and make them indispensable or irreplaceable?
Yeah, firstly, f*ck that person. Secondly, I have watched companies replace that person many times in my career.
— InfoSteph (@StephandSec) May 7, 2021
How many times have we seen this in our organizations? People want to hoard knowledge because they feel like it’s power. Maybe they’re worried that if anyone knew what they know it would mean they could get fired. Perhaps they enjoy holding the keys to the kingdom and not allowing anyone else to do something or know something they know. It could even be that they like the idea of mystery in the air and not allowing people to know the whole truth keeps things alive, as the founders of Coca-Cola and Colonel Sanders will happily tell you.
Over the years I’ve figured out that hoarding knowledge leads to ruin. I’ve been involved in so many scenarios were a lack of knowledge sharing ended up Continue reading
Is the Edgeless Enterprise a Foregone Conclusion?
By embracing 5G networking and cloud-native software principles, companies can create a new agile service layer that unifies and automates enterprise policy across existing campus networks, removing strict boundaries around the enterprise edge.Tier 1 Carriers Performance Report: April, 2021
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Video: IP Routing Fundamentals
A few weeks ago we covered transparent bridging fundamentals, now it’s time to recap IP routing fundamentals… and then we’ll be ready to compare the two.
The video is part of How Networks Really Work webinar and available with Free ipSpace.net Subscription.
Video: IP Routing Fundamentals
A few weeks ago we covered transparent bridging fundamentals, now it’s time to recap IP routing fundamentals… and then we’ll be ready to compare the two.
The video is part of How Networks Really Work webinar and available with Free ipSpace.net Subscription.
The Hedge 82: Jared Smith and Route Poisoning
Intentionally poisoning BGP routes in the Default-Free Zone (DFZ) would always be a bad thing, right? Actually, this is a fairly common method to steer traffic flows away from and through specific autonomous systems. How does this work, how common is it, and who does this? Jared Smith joins us on this episode of the Hedge to discuss the technique, and his research into how frequently it is used.
It Should Be Easy to Upgrade Your Load Balancer —And it Can Be
Applications have never been more important in business than they are today. And where there are applications, there’s a load balancer, working behind the scenes to ensure your applications can be used comfortably and safely at all times. When operating a load balancer, the most troublesome issue is upgrade work. Let’s examine the problems of traditional load balancer upgrades and take a look at VMware’s automated, streamlined solution: NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
Why do you need to upgrade your load balancer in the first place?
The main reasons to upgrade a load balancer are to patch vulnerabilities and bugs, to enable new features, and for EoSL support. A load balancer, located between users and applications, must above all be stable; we particularly want to avoid service disruptions due to defects in the load balancer software. For this reason, load balancer upgrades are inevitable. And for IT, the trick is to make them, as transparent and painless as possible..
For illustration, let’s take a look at a recent international case involving load balancers. To address software glitches, a project was running to upgrade hundreds of load balancers. The upgrade work was carried out little by little over several months, with operations personnel setting Continue reading
Prisma Access 2.0 Enables Painless Migration From Hardware Web Proxies
This guest post is by Drew Conry-Murray on behalf of Palo Alto Networks. We thank Palo Alto Networks for being a sponsor. Prisma Access, which delivers security services via the cloud, has added an explicit proxy feature in the 2.0 version. This feature can help companies migrate off of hardware-based proxies while still protecting Web […]
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IPv6 Buzz 075: Why Wells Fargo Bought Into IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom chat with John Burns, a lead architect at Wells Fargo, about the relatively early adoption of IPv6 at the company. The discussion also covers adoption trends in the financial sector as a whole, along with the key challenges and opportunities of the protocol.IPv6 Buzz 075: Why Wells Fargo Bought Into IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom chat with John Burns, a lead architect at Wells Fargo, about the relatively early adoption of IPv6 at the company. The discussion also covers adoption trends in the financial sector as a whole, along with the key challenges and opportunities of the protocol.
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Risks and Rewards of the U.S. Broadband Funding Boom
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us once and for all that broadband access is critical infrastructure. Without it, communities cannot work, learn, or earn online – a necessity during stay-at-home orders. And policymakers are taking notice. In the past few months, trillions of dollars have been proposed by the House, Senate, and White House for […]
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