The last two weeks have been filled with conferences. RSA happened June 6-9 and Cisco Live was June 12-16. There were also gatherings for Splunk, Juniper, and others around the same time in San Francisco and Las Vegas. While the general mood of the conferences seemed to be focused on how good it was to get people back in person the reality of what that looks like a world still affected by a global pandemic came into focus after everyone started getting back home. RSA, according to reports, has seen reported COVID infections as high as 20% of attendees based on informal polling numbers. CIsco Live, which boasted over 16,000 people in Vegas, is seeing simliar numbers. While I was able to make it through the conference without testing positive many others that I was interacting with didn’t. Which calls into question the practice of having live in-person events during the pandemic. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head over to gestaltit.com for show notes.

What time is it? Pretty easy question, right? But what if you need to know exactly what time something was sent or received? And you needed to trust someone else to give you that information. RFC3161 covers this in detail, but how does it really work? Chris Marget tells you all about Trusted Time Protocol in this great post.

Is Netflix going to ruin your network? Maybe you should limit the ability of your guest wireless users to pull down HD movies in the waiting room? Jim Palmer has other ideas though. He’s got a great post (with lots of graphs) about why rate limiting Netflix and other streaming services is doing you a disservice.

You’ve got your solution and you’re ready to implement it. Now, stop and ask yourself what you’re actually trying to accomplish. Ivan Pepelnjak takes a look at the reasons why you really want to make sure that you’re actually trying to solve the right problem with the solution in your hands.

Modern UC solutions have to be ready to serve your customers and users in a variety of ways. NETSCOUT has the talent, the tools, and the experience to help you ensure your services are online when they need to be running and available for your customers and users to access.

Have you tested your network resilience recently? Like, really tested it? If you haven’t turned something off yet this year you are doing yourself a disservice. Terry Slattery goes into all the reasons why you have to do it for real sometimes in this great post.

Your snapshots are just points in time. They need to tell a story to make sure you’re using them effectively. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Metageek’s new Rampart cloud service and how it can help those pictures of your wireless network proudly gleam as you work with your team to troubleshoot issues.

Less than 10% of cloud data is encrypted at rest. With CCPA coming soon, what does that mean for your company if you violate the act and it comes back to haunt you? How can you be sure your data is worthless to thieves? Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Ed Yu of StrongSalt and discusses their new Open Privacy API, which is designed to combat the difficulty of implementing encryption properly.

Do you love vMotion? Would you like it better if it was smarter about making decisions to move your VMs? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Virtana and how they stop the roulette wheel of vMotion movement.

Security BGP should be as easy as fastening your seat belt, right? Except no one will give you a ticket for having insecure BGP. Ivan Pepelnjak explores this idea and some others when it comes to mandatory BGP practices in a great blog post.