Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPP070: News Roundup – Scattered Spider Bites MSPs, Microsoft Rethinks Kernel Access, North Koreans Seem Good at Their Illicit Jobs
There’s lots of juicy stories in our monthly security news roundup. The Scattered Spider hacking group makes effective use of social engineering to t…
9 months ago
NB534: Arista Late to SD-WAN Party but Ready to Dance; CoreWeave Acquires GPUs, Gigawatts for $9 Billion
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista market share in the enterprise, and then sound the alarm about a remote code executi…
9 months, 1 week ago
NAN095: Certification Deep Dive – The New Cisco Automation Track
Cisco recently announced a major evolution to its certification roadmap: starting February 2026, the popular DevNet certifications will transition to…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
PP069: A Quantum Primer: It’s More Than Cracking Crypto
Quantum computing is here, and it’s being used for more than cracking encryption. On today’s Packet Protector we get a primer on quantum, how it diff…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
NB533: HPE Settles With DoJ to Buy Juniper; Juniper Must Auction Mist Source Code
Take a Network Break! HPE and Juniper have settled with the US Department of Justice, allowing HPE’s $14 billion purchase to move forward. However, a…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
HN787: Are We In a Post-SNMP Era?
SNMP is still widely used in today’s networks. But modern telemetry and network observability are bringing changes to network monitoring. Today’s Hea…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
TNO034: Doing the Work of Workflows With Greg Freeman
On today’s show we talk about NetDevOps and AI Ops with Greg Freeman, VP of Network and Customer Transformation at Lumen. Greg spearheads network aut…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
N4N032: OSPF Basics
By popular request (and now that we have some other background topics covered) we start our series on the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing pro…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
D2DO276: MCP: Capable, Insecure, and On Your Network Today
MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is an open-source project originally created by Anthropic. MCP is designed to let AI agents to connect to data reposi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
NB532: HPE Deploys AI Agents Into GreenLake; Wi-Fi 7 Drives Q1 Switch Sales
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert is a remote code execution vulnerability in Roundcube. On the news front, HPE announces GreenLake Intelligence, w…
9 months, 4 weeks ago