The Fat Pipe - All Packet Pushers Pods

I have worked with several intrusion detection and prevention systems going back a couple of decades or so.

The problem with them? Alarm floods. Never-ending updates. False positives. Mysteriously dropping legitimate traffic. Poor integration with firewalls. A lack of correlation with host logs. Old-school IDS/IPS just sucks.

“Old-school” is the keyword there. We’re going to discuss a different, modern approach with our sponsor, Open Systems.

The big idea is continuous monitoring, and in the Open Systems architecture, continuous monitoring expands on IDS/IPS to deliver a holistic, distributed security perspective.

Joining us is Dave Martin, Senior Director for Product Management of Threat Response within Open Systems.

Open Systems provides SD-WAN platform, but it also integrates a variety of security capabilities including firewalls, secure Web gateways, email protection, and intrusion detection. They also offer complementary services such as vulnerability management and assessment.

On today’s episode we focus on Open Systems’ continuous monitoring capabilities.

Show Links:

Open-Systems.com

Heavy Networking 446: How Open Systems Integrates Security And SD-WAN As A Service – Packet Pushers

Open Systems Product Brief – Open Systems (PDF)

Welcome to Heavy Networking, a uniquely nerdy podcast that puts the network at the center of the universe where it belongs.

Today is a sponsored show with ThousandEyes and we’re going to feast on a smorgasbord of topics: first, a new synthetic transaction monitoring tool from ThousandEyes.

Second, we’ll discuss why performance monitoring is critical to your SD-WAN readiness and ongoing operations.

Third, we’ll explore postmortems on a couple of 2019’s Internet outages, including a major route leak that affected CloudFlare, and what that means when you’re relying on the Internet for critical business applications.

Our guests from ThousandEyes are Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing; and Angelique Medina, Director of Product Marketing.

Show Links:

ThousandEyes

Browser Synthetic Monitoring – ThousandEyes

Introducing Internet-Aware Synthetic Transaction Monitoring – ThousandEyes Blog

ThousandEyes Addresses Critical Enterprise Application Performance Visibility Gap With Internet-Aware Synthetics – ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes for Application Delivery – ThousandEyes (PDF)

Visibility for Your Hybrid WAN and SD-WAN Traffic – ThousandEyes

Cloudflare Users Burned by Internet Routing Pile-Up – ThousandEyes

WhatsApp Disruption: Just One Symptom of Broader Route Leak – ThousandEyes

Internet Outage Reveals Reach of China’s Connectivity – ThousandEyes

Today's Network Break discusses upgrades to Arista's CloudVision management software, a new ACI partnership between Cisco and Microsoft Azure, a Google pledge to invest in new European data centers, Amazon's pledge to be carbon-neutral by 2040, and more tech news.

If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you. On today's episode, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking required to get your head around how we can prioritize packets over a shared medium. Our guest is Ryan Adzima.

If you are deploying an enterprise QoS scheme, wireless QoS matters to you.

Today, we go through the basics of wireless QoS, covering some of the standards, terminology, and thinking required to get your head around how we can prioritize packets over a shared medium.

You ready for this? I hope so. Our guest today is Ryan Adzima, and he agreed to make us smarter about this topic.

We discuss:

* The major use cases for wireless QoS

* Key wireless QoS standards, including 802.11e-2005 Wireless Multimedia Extensions

* Differences between Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF)

* How wireless QoS marking works

* More

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Sponsor: ITProTV

Get over in-depth technical training from ITProTV. ITProTV offers online instruction in CompTIA, Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft and more. You can stream courses live and on demand on your favorite device. Sign up at itpro.tv/packet and save 25%. Use the code PACKET25 when you check out.

Show Links:

Ryan Adzima on Twitter

Whiskey And Wireless Podcast

Mapping Diffserv to IEEE 802.11 – IETF

Techvangelist – Ryan’s Blog

Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset because the market for v4 address space is rising. The question is, for how long? Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6 Buzz podcast crew to discuss the financial implications of selling IPv4 addresses. They also discuss the performance and operational benefits of moving to IPv6.

You’ve heard whispers of a new project code-named Daedalus; something to do with multi-cloud, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, and Git.

You have a vague sense of what all of those things are, and a clear sense of dread that you’ll end up assigned to this labyrinthine mess.

Lo and behold, you’ve got an email from your Resource Coordinator congratulating you on being selected for this exciting new endeavor.

How do you architect a new cloud solution while learning on the fly, without soaring too close to imposter syndrome and melting your wings? That’s our topic on this episode of Day Two Cloud.

My guest is Aaron Strong, a Cloud Architect for the Burwood Group and a fellow Cloud Field Day delegate.

We discuss:

* Aaron’s technical background in Windows infrastructure

* How consulting projects drove him toward the cloud and DevOps practices

* His experiences with tools including Terraform and GitHub

* Why it’s essential to ask for help and time when you’re learning on the fly

* Building a support system among the tech community and coworkers to get that help

* More

Show Links:

Aaron Strong on Twitter

The Aaron Strong – Aaron’s Blog

Day Two Cloud 017: Grappling With Multi-Cloud’s Operational Implications – Packet Pushers

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast explores the struggle of transitioning from traditional infrastructure ops to the public cloud using DevOps principles and new tools. My guest is Aaron Strong, a cloud architect. We talk about how to skill up quickly, where to start, when and where to ask for help, and more.

On today's Network Break podcast, Google is the latest tech giant to face a tech backlash as U.S. Attorneys General launch an antitrust investigation, AT&T comes under fire from an activist investor, Microsoft partners with satellite broadband providers on ExpressRoute, Gigamon rolls out new software, and more tech news.

On today's Network Break podcast, Google is the latest tech giant to face a tech backlash as U.S. Attorneys General launch an antitrust investigation, AT&T comes under fire from an activist investor, Microsoft partners with satellite broadband providers on ExpressRoute, Gigamon rolls out new software, and more tech news.