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Today's Network Break analyzes a slew of Cisco Live announcements including ACI Anywhere and HyperFlex for edge deployments, Huawei's run-ins with U.S. prosecutors, financial results from Juniper Networks and Mellanox, and more tech news.

Today's Network Break analyzes a slew of Cisco Live announcements including ACI Anywhere and HyperFlex for edge deployments, Huawei's run-ins with U.S. prosecutors, financial results from Juniper Networks and Mellanox, and more tech news.

Today's Heavy Networking aims to separate the hype from the substance on hot tech topics including SD-whatever, cloud native, container networking, service meshes, microsegmentation, and more. Our guests are Avi Freedman and Jon Mendoza.

Today’s Heavy Networking examines a bunch of hot topics in networking and IT to see what’s hype and what’s reality.

The tech industry is full of buzzwords and emerging technologies that attract media attention, spur speculation, and get engineering brains spun up. But is anyone actually using this stuff?

That’s what we aim to find out today. We’ll do our best to separate the sensational from the substantial on topics including:

* Software-defined X

* DevNetOps and Cloud Native

* Streaming telemetry

* Container networking and service meshes

* Microsegmentation

* Formal verification

* AI, blockchain for IT, and more

Joining us to share their own perspectives and what they’re hearing from customers are Avi Freedman, CEO and Co-founder of Kentik; and Jon Mendoza, Field CTO at Technologent.

On today’s Datanauts podcast we assess the current state of the PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance standard and its impact on your infrastructure and security operations. Our guest is Paul Snyder, an IT Risk Consultant for a large insurance agency.

In part 1 we walk through the basics of PCI, including the organizations behind it, which organizations are subject to the standard (anyone that processes credit card transactions), and the various assessment levels, from a do-it-yourself checklist to a visit from your friendly neighborhood QSA (Qualified Security Assessor).

Part 2 examines the scope of PCI in terms of the data its protecting and which systems fall under assessment. We also discuss the differences between compliance and security–they aren’t the same thing.

Part 3 offers advice on how to survive an assessment, the documentation you’ll need to provide, what to know about assessors, and how to work with QSAs to maximize a positive outcome (don’t lie, don’t try to play games).

Show Links:

PCI Security Standards Council: Document Library

PCI Security Standards Council: Self Assessment Questionnaire

PCI Security Council: Understanding SAQs (PDF)

Paul Snyder on Twitter

State Of The SOC – Paul Snyder’s Blog

Paul Snyder on LinkedIn

On today’s Datanauts podcast we assess the current state of the PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance standard and its impact on your infrastructure and security operations. Our guest is Paul Snyder, an IT Risk Consultant for a large insurance agency.

In part 1 we walk through the basics of PCI, including the organizations behind it, which organizations are subject to the standard (anyone that processes credit card transactions), and the various assessment levels, from a do-it-yourself checklist to a visit from your friendly neighborhood QSA (Qualified Security Assessor).

Part 2 examines the scope of PCI in terms of the data its protecting and which systems fall under assessment. We also discuss the differences between compliance and security–they aren’t the same thing.

Part 3 offers advice on how to survive an assessment, the documentation you’ll need to provide, what to know about assessors, and how to work with QSAs to maximize a positive outcome (don’t lie, don’t try to play games).

Show Links:

PCI Security Standards Council: Document Library

PCI Security Standards Council: Self Assessment Questionnaire

PCI Security Council: Understanding SAQs (PDF)

Paul Snyder on Twitter

State Of The SOC – Paul Snyder’s Blog

Paul Snyder on LinkedIn

On today’s sponsored Tech Bytes episode we explore Nubeva Prisms, a public-cloud packet broker.

With Nubeva Prisms you can get packet-level visibility into AWS and Azure (with GCP soon to come). Prisms acquires, processes, and distributes packets to your analyers, performance monitors, and security tools whether those tools reside in the cloud or on premises.

We discuss how Prisms work, their packet processing capabilities, and their performance impact on cloud resources. Our guests are Steve Perkins, CRO and Head of Product; and Erik Freeland, Director of Customer Success.

Show Links:

Nubeva

Nubeva blog

Nubeva on Twitter

Nubeva on LinkedIn

Erik Freeland on Twitter

On today’s sponsored Tech Bytes episode we explore Nubeva Prisms, a public-cloud packet broker.

With Nubeva Prisms you can get packet-level visibility into AWS and Azure (with GCP soon to come). Prisms acquires, processes, and distributes packets to your analyers, performance monitors, and security tools whether those tools reside in the cloud or on premises.

We discuss how Prisms work, their packet processing capabilities, and their performance impact on cloud resources. Our guests are Steve Perkins, CRO and Head of Product; and Erik Freeland, Director of Customer Success.

Show Links:

Nubeva

Nubeva blog

Nubeva on Twitter

Nubeva on LinkedIn

Erik Freeland on Twitter

Today's Network Break examines a US Homeland Security advisory on DNS tampering, covers 400G switching news from Arrcus and Huawei, analyzes financial results from Intel and F5, and more. Plus stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nubeva about its cloud packet broker.

Today's Network Break examines a US Homeland Security advisory on DNS tampering, covers 400G switching news from Arrcus and Huawei, analyzes financial results from Intel and F5, and more. Plus stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Nubeva about its cloud packet broker.