In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and his panel discuss the pros and cons behind how EVPN Doesn’t Need VXLAN.

In this episode we will discuss the state of funding in the IT space and how it might impact future career prospects. Wonder how startups get funded? Or why interest rates are linked to investments? Tune in to learn more!

Flash Memory Summit happened last week but we didn’t want to let it go by without having our own storage expert comment on some of the announcments there.

It’s Black Hat and DEFCON week and it wouldn’t be a show without the disclosure of a few big bugs. The winner so far seems to be a new exploit found in Intel’s SGX memory encryption technology. Per pre-briefing ahead of a talk happening today, security researchers found a flaw in the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) that allows them to read uninitialized memory that could contain stale data before it’s cleared by the CPU. Unlike Spectre and Meltdown, this isn’t a side channel attack. It’s a flaw in the CPU architecture. This means that attackers can recover data very quickly. Tests showed a 128-bit AES encryption key could be recovered in less than 2 seconds with 94% accuracy and a 1024-bit RSA key could be nabbed in about a minute and a half with 74% accuracy. Intel is saying the exploit is on their 10th, 11th, and 12th gen processors which includes Ice Lake but no mention of Sapphire Rapids. This and more on this week’s episode of the Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for show notes.

In this episode featuring delegates from Networking Field Day: Service Provider, we discuss how Service Providers Lead the Way in Automation.

Why is Intel doing away with Optane? Stephen and Tom discuss this and more on this week’s Gestalt IT Rundown.

It’s time again for the latest edition of Networking Field Day: Service Provider, bringing you another look at the side of the network.

Tom and Stephen have been talking about the shortage of integrated circuits and the race to build more production capacity for over a year, but maybe there’s more to this story.

On this episode, Tom Hollingsworth and the panel discuss how the world is more wireless that ever and if it’s reliable enough in critical situations.

Attackers are starting to target the critical infrastructure that runs industrial and manufacturing facilities. That may not sound like a new thing but the speed and sophistication with which they’re increasing their attacks is. Security firm Dragos hast noted in a recent post that there has been a significant increase in the number of people using password cracking tools on industrial equipment such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Where the real devilish genius comes into play is not tha these attackers are trying to corrupt them. Instead, they’re converting these machines into nodes in large botnets to amplify attacks. And if you think it’s hard to clean a malware infection from a PC try doing it on a PLC that can’t be shut down. Dragos noted that while they only tested one particular kind of PLC many other samples had traces of malware infections. Stephen, is this going to cause issues for our already strained supply chain?