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  • 7 Layers: Sumo Logic CSO Urges Regulation to Curb Social Media Security Threats
    Sumo Logic Chief Security Officer George Gerchow joined SDxCentral Editor Nancy Liu to dive into social media security on this episode of 7 Layers.
    The heat has turned up recently for popular social media platforms’ security problems. SDxCentral reported in August that a former Twitter security chief filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the company has major security issues, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly accused Twitter of concealing serious data security flaws.
    Meanwhile, Tik Tok and Facebook’s data security and privacy concerns also made headlines. 
    Despite almost all age groups being on those platforms, “they really don't establish any kind of real security when it comes down to it for their users,” Gerchow argues. “It just leaves their platform wide open for folks to impersonate accounts, create fake accounts, to fish out of different organizations. So they're not doing the basic foundations when it comes to security and it's a shame.”
    He added that we need a third-party validation or regulatory requirement that can be audited for those platforms. “They've really got to be regulated.”
    During the podcast, Gerchow listed measures that users can do to protect themselves, including password tips and mutli-factor authentication. 
    All organizations have employees on social media or take advantage of it for marketing and other business purposes. “Start putting your own security measures around it,” Gerchow suggested.
    He noted that zero-trust principles apply directly here. “Most of it in my mind starts with identity. So when you can prove your identity and then have someone else prove who they are, that starts establishing that trust and tooling like single sign-on, multi-factor authentication are a big part of that.”
    “Logging is a big piece of it as well … if you're able to log what's actually going on in the enterprise. You can then even have further validation,” Gerchow said. 
     
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    14 min
  • 7 Layers: John Deere Talks RFP, Data, and Securing Autonomous Ag
    SDxCentral Reporter Emma Chervek is joined by John Deere's Director of Emerging Technology Julian Sanchez for a conversation at the agricultural giant's test farm outside of Des Moines, Iowa.
    The two discuss John Deere's request for proposal for the satellite industry to connect and automate the operations of 1.5 million agricultural machines by 2026. The agricultural giant is searching for a vendor or set of vendors to develop a SATCOM solution to provide connectivity in areas not covered by terrestrial cellular networks.
    "It's critical to be able to monitor what's going on with the machine at any given point from anywhere," Sanchez said.
    Satellite connectivity requires a lot of different players. "There are folks that are focused more on how they offer the ground solutions – the ground technology to receive the satellite signals. There [are] folks that are interested in optimizing the way in which data gets moved between ground technology and the satellite technology. There's folks that are worried about the design of the satellites and how they architect constellations. And so we we've got them all here," Sanchez explained, referring to the industry day focused on this RFP happening in a building across the farm.
    Sanchez also discussed the role of data and analytics in Deere's autonomous ag ambitions. "One of the things that you have to have to continue to deploy reliable autonomous solutions is ... more and more data about what the machines actually see out there in the field so that the algorithms get more intelligent over time," he said.
    From an autonomy standpoint, connectivity is crucial because it "unlocks the ability for farmers to have confidence" in the machine's competency compared to the confidence farmers have in their own abilities. And "in the continued evolution of autonomous solutions, [connectivity] gives us the ability to collect more data, bring that data back, and use that data to train the algorithms," he added.
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    16 min
  • 7 Layers Podcast: 5G, Broadband Drive Metro Ethernet Evolution
    Demand for broadband connectivity continues to surge as the workforce and broader population in general adapt to a post-pandemic world. High-speed connection needs are no longer confined to large office buildings but are now needed across urban and rural areas.
    This has led to a push for more robust wired and wireless connectivity options that require even more robust backhaul capabilities.
    A recent report from Dell’Oro Group found the global broadband access equipment market surged 12% year-over-year during the second quarter, hitting $4.5 billion in revenues.
    SDxCentral recently spoke with Brendan Gibbs, SVP of automated WAN solutions at Juniper Networks, to get his insight into how the metro Ethernet market is evolving and where he sees market opportunities.
    The vendor itself expects metro Ethernet traffic will increase by more than 500% over the next several years as telecom operators boost their 5G network deployments and cloud providers continue to expand the reach of their data centers.
    Juniper recently fleshed out its Cloud Metro strategy, combining automation and artificial intelligence (AI) into a managed offering targeted at service providers battling increased data consumption from their 5G and edge deployments.
    The updates include Juniper moving its Paragon Automation software suite into a cloud-based, as-a-service product. Juniper launched Paragon Automation early last year, tapping into its Netrounds acquisition to provide vendor-agnostic software that monitors network services, automation, and resiliency testing.
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    20 min

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