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HN776: Security Platforms: Balancing Efficacy, Ops, and Emerging Threats (Sponsored) Apr 11, 2025

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Network security has evolved from stateful perimeter firewalls with maybe some IDS/IPS to a complex stack delivered as numerous unique tools, which often don’t talk to one another and may need to be operated by specialists. In this environment it’s hard to unify a security policy, troubleshoot problems, manage and operate tools, and respond effectively... Read more »

N4N021: Is It the Network? Network Monitoring Basics Apr 10, 2025

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How do you know what is happening within your network, especially when something isn’t working? Network monitoring is the answer. On today’s show, we’ll start with the basics of network monitoring. We’ll cover what it is, how it’s used, and suggest some paid and open source network monitoring tools. This week’s bonus material is a... Read more »

NAN089: A Career Journey of Exponential Learning Apr 09, 2025

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“If you don’t feel nervous in front of a challenge, you are not exponentially learning” is how today’s guest Christian Adell describes his own approach to career growth. Christian chats with us first about how he got started in IT, his various experiences in both networking and DevOps and then network automation. He leads a... Read more »

PP057: Behind the Scenes At Cisco: PSIRT, AI, CVEs, and VEX Apr 08, 2025

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Cisco Systems has a sprawling portfolio of home-grown and acquired products. What’s it like trying to find and address bugs and vulnerabilities across this portfolio? Omar Santos, a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, gives us an inside look. We dig into how Cisco identifies security bugs using internal and external sources, the growing role of AI... Read more »

HS100: Lead Without Lying: The (Radical) Strategy of Honesty Apr 08, 2025

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Is it actually possible to run a team without lying? Steven Gaffney, author of the book, “Just Be Honest”, joins Johna and John to talk about why being honest is harder than it sounds–and how (and why) to do it anyway. Steven spends his career advising science and technology leaders about how to be more... Read more »

Tech Bytes: An Inside Look at the Wireshark Foundation (Sponsored) Apr 07, 2025

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Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we get a look at the inner workings of the Wireshark Foundation. Many already know what Wireshark is and can do for you. It’s a free, open-source, and widely used tool for packet and protocol analysis. But what does it take to keep Wireshark running, to update software and... Read more »

NB521: Optics Advances in the Data Center; Google Extends Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Apr 07, 2025

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Take a Network Break! We check in on a serious Firefox vulnerability, explore NIST’s latest post-quantum encryption algorithm, and discuss a broken auto-update functionality in VMware Workstation. NetBox adds config drift detection to its network automation software, the startup Lightmatter tackles co-packaged optics, and Corning launches Glassworks AI in a bid to replace copper cabling... Read more »

HN775: How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot Apr 04, 2025

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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... Read more »

IPB172: IPv6 SMB – Does it Work? Plus Other Listener Questions! Apr 03, 2025

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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... Read more »

N4N020: To Cert Or Not To Cert? Apr 03, 2025

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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,... Read more »

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