Apple has quietly added a new “Lockdown Mode” to iOS 16, iPadOS16, and macOS Ventura that allows users to restrict the channels often used by the most intrusive exploits and hacks. It’s designed to protect journalists, dissidents, and others at risk of state-sponsored snooping. This and more on this week’s Rundown. Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes.

In this episode, our group of wireless experts discuss the premise and whatever or not we are Using the Words Site Survey Wrong.

We’re back with more mobility and wireless content at Mobility Field Day 7!

NIST has announced their selections for quantum-safe encryption algorithms. The competition has been running since 2016 when the standards body realized that quantum computing could potentially impact RSA-based public key encryption. The new encryption method, CRYSTALS-Kyber, as well as digital signature methods named CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, and SPHINCS+, are designed to be implemented in the coming years for highly senstive data that could come under attack from advanced threats as well as the inevitable future of a powerful factoring system like a quantum computer. Are we all going to have to get new key tokens now?

The artificial intelligence community is buzzing about the just-released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results, which were announced today. NVIDIA, Intel Habana, Google, and Graphcore all submitted at least partial results, and everyone is crowing about their performance. NVIDIA is the only one to cover the field, and has a strong showing despite still relying on their A100 GPUs. Intel’s Habana Gaudi 2 also shows great performance per watt in the tests they submitted, with the Graphcore Bow IPU and Google TPUv4 trailing somewhat. How do we make sense of all this ML training hardware? Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes.

In this episode, sponsored by Fortinet, Tom and his panel discuss why Consistent Security is Hard.

Can you deploy XDR in the mid-market? Is there a budget for doing advanced security in an SME? Tom Hollingsworth looks at the latest offering from Exium that is aimed at bringing advanced security where it’s needed most.

Is hybrid cloud still a popular choice for users? Are there good reasons to keep data local as opposed to moving it somewhere else? And does multi cloud play a role at all? Find out what I think about it in this episode of Tomversations.

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.