Is your network stuck in an old way of thinking about architecture? Is it starting to affect your applications? Maybe you need to take a fresh look with something new. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look back at Arrcus at Networking Field Day and how their fresh perspective is changing the way we build networks.
If you don’t have an eye to reassemble files from a data stream in a PCAP file, fear not! Erik Hjelmvik has written a new tool called NetworkMiner that will let you dig out all the things that are hiding in there.
How can you detect intruders once they’ve already penetrated your perimeter? They key to finding your interlopers is to detect their movement. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Confluera, a new startup that can help you find what you’re hunting for.
SD-WAN is easy, right? Just plug it in and make it go. You can totally do this yourself, right? Well…maybe. Daniel Dib takes a look at some of the things involved in an SD-WAN deployment that aren’t just tech.
It’s time to clean house. And that house includes all your digital information as well. What have you saved that you need to get rid of? Jed Casey talks about how he finally let go of his stash in this post.
Is your enterprise experiencing an explosion of IoT devices? Are you trying to figure out the best way to secure them? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at a new IoT-focused solution from Fortinet that can help you out.
If you know tech you automatically know policy, right? Or maybe those policy people need to listen to you instead? Maybe what is really needed is a different approach. Bruce Schneier takes a look at the perfect storm of tech and policy and how we need to get it right if we want to stay ahead of where emerging tech is racing.
If you’re sending traffic over the Internet, it’s getting to the proper destination because of something it learned through BGP. But BGP gives you so much more flexibility than just being a simple routing protocol. Pete Welcher takes a look at how to use BGP to engineer traffic flows to your advantage.
If you need to build a lab and don’t have the hardware or the horsepower to make it happen, you need something different to help you. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the Tesuto presentation from Networking Field Day and how it can help you meet your testing needs through the power of software.
TCP is the protocol that runs the Internet. So why are we acting against it in such a way as to make software cost a fortune to do something TCP does for free? Check out this post courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak and Dan Hughes that talks about TCP being the most expensive part of your data center.
