Tom Hollingsworth

About the Author:

Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day.  His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/

Articles by Tom Hollingsworth

Malware Microsegmentation with Illumio

October 16, 2019

Are you worried that your patches are going to cause more problems than they solve? Wish you could just lock down the vulnerable systems until you know what’s going to happen? Tom Hollingsworth looks back at Illumio’s presentation during Security Field Day 2 to see how microsegmentation can help you sleep soundly at night.

Design: Is It One Site or Two?

October 15, 2019

Building two separate data centers for reliability makes all the sense in the world. But what happens when they start behaving like one data center? Dr. Peter Welcher has some thoughts on the subject and some things you definitely want to watch out for.

Investing in the CWNE

October 15, 2019

There are some big changes coming to the CWNE certification. Tom Hollingsworth breaks them down and discusses how they might impact the future of people applying for the premiere wireless certification.

Wi-Fi6 Ratification: Not So Fast My Friend

October 14, 2019

Wi-Fi 6 is a done deal, right? We’re certified, which is almost the same thing as ratified. Except when it isn’t. Nick Shoemaker has a quick overview of why the difference makes all the difference.

Connectivity Solved with Aryaka

October 11, 2019

Have you ever had to deal with an ISP to get connectivity to your branch office? Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Aryaka to find out how their SD-WAN as a Service solution helps you wrangle that particular connectivity issue.

All-In on AI With Mist and Juniper

October 10, 2019

How will AI impact the future of administration of networks? Tom Hollingsworth sits down with Bob Friday of Mist, A Juniper Company, to discuss how software is going to change the tasks we do in our daily work.

Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS for the Enterprise

October 9, 2019

Is your enterprise ready for DNS-over-HTTPS? How would you know if you weren’t? Josh Warcop takes a look at how to configure Firefox to play nicely in the enterprise with this new security feature.

When Is Something SD-WAN?

October 8, 2019

Is your networking solution of choice SD-WAN? Daniel Dib gives us a great overview of what makes something SD-WAN and how we can ensure we’re getting what we paid for.

Supply-Chain Security and Trust

October 3, 2019

Security is paramount and we do everything we can to make our systems more secure. But what happens if they’re insecure at the origin? Bruce Schneier has some thoughts about supply-chain security in this great post.

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