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Should enterprises ditch Microsoft because of security concerns? Microsoft’s numerous vulnerabilities and questionable responses make it a significant risk for continued use. At the same time, Microsoft’s strong integration and utility in enterprise environments make it attractive for continued use. Johna Till Johnson and John Burke debate. They also weigh considerations including the challenges of... Read more »
Should enterprises ditch Microsoft because of security concerns? Microsoft’s numerous vulnerabilities and questionable responses make it a significant risk for continued use. At the same time, Microsoft’s strong integration and utility in enterprise environments make it attractive for continued use. Johna Till Johnson and John Burke debate. They also weigh considerations including the challenges of... Read more »
Should enterprises ditch Microsoft because of security concerns? Microsoft’s numerous vulnerabilities and questionable responses make it a significant risk for continued use. At the same time, Microsoft’s strong integration and utility in enterprise environments make it attractive for continued use. Johna Till Johnson and John Burke debate. They also weigh considerations including the challenges of... Read more »
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news. First, Nokia acquires optics maker Infinera, Broadcom brings new features to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and campus switch sales drop. A Microsoft subsidiary... Read more »
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news. First, Nokia acquires optics maker Infinera, Broadcom brings new features to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and campus switch sales drop. A Microsoft subsidiary... Read more »
Greg Ferro bids farewell to Network Break, and Drew Conry-Murray and Johna Till Johnson bid farewell to Greg. Of course, the podcast must go on, so we also cover some tech news. First, Nokia acquires optics maker Infinera, Broadcom brings new features to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and campus switch sales drop. A Microsoft subsidiary... Read more »
Tabletop security exercises can help organizations game out their response to a security incident. From the technical and business considerations to legal and PR implications, a tabletop exercise, like Dungeons and Dragons, lets you play-test attack and defense scenarios. Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes consulting firm and co-host of the Heavy Strategy podcast, joins... Read more »
Tabletop security exercises can help organizations game out their response to a security incident. From the technical and business considerations to legal and PR implications, a tabletop exercise, like Dungeons and Dragons, lets you play-test attack and defense scenarios. Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes consulting firm and co-host of the Heavy Strategy podcast, joins... Read more »
Take a Network Break! Johna Till Johnson joins as guest host while Greg Ferro enjoys some time off. We start with follow-up regarding damage to subsea cables in the Red Sea, and then dive into news. AT&T deals with the fallout of a major US outage, Vodafone also suffers outages in the UK, and Elisa... Read more »
Take a Network Break! Johna Till Johnson joins as guest host while Greg Ferro enjoys some time off. We start with follow-up regarding damage to subsea cables in the Red Sea, and then dive into news. AT&T deals with the fallout of a major US outage, Vodafone also suffers outages in the UK, and Elisa... Read more »
Take a Network Break! Johna Till Johnson joins as guest host while Greg Ferro enjoys some time off. We start with follow-up regarding damage to subsea cables in the Red Sea, and then dive into news. AT&T deals with the fallout of a major US outage, Vodafone also suffers outages in the UK, and Elisa... Read more »
Hosts Greg Ferro and Johna Till Johnson reflect on the technological advancements of 2023 and discuss the trends for 2024. In this wide-ranging conversation, they chat about the rise of AI, tech consolidation, and the impact of automation on infrastructure. They also explore the geopolitical impact on supply chains, the move away from Chinese manufacturing,... Read more »
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news The post Network Break 449: Amazon Invests $4 Billion In AI Startup; Will Small Modular Reactors Power Public Clouds? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news The post Network Break 449: Amazon Invests $4 Billion In AI Startup; Will Small Modular Reactors Power Public Clouds? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news
Today's Network Break, with guest host Johna Till Johnson, discusses why Amazon is pouring $4 billion into a generative AI startup, Marvell's response to accusations of an NSA-friendly backdoor in older Cavium products, why Microsoft is investigating small modular nuclear reactors, Meta using public posts to train AI, and more tech news The post Network Break 449: Amazon Invests $4 Billion In AI Startup; Will Small Modular Reactors Power Public Clouds? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions. The post Heavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions. The post Heavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions.
On today's Heavy Networking we sub in a podcast from our Heavy Strategy channel. Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, discuss the impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the technology workspace, including whether human workers can partner with these tools to increase productivity and improve technology experiences. They don't have answers, but they do have unanswered questions. The post Heavy Networking 671: Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Hello again Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining. On this World of Wargaming episode of MCA Scuttlebutt, William speaks with the CEO and Founder of Nemertes, Johna Till Johnson, on
Hello again Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining. On this World of Wargaming episode of MCA Scuttlebutt, William speaks with the CEO and Founder of Nemertes, Johna Till Johnson, on
A fantastic first season of Capture the CISO finishes with a fantastic finale. The show went live last Friday, June 17th, 2022, and you can watch it right here, or please listen to the finished edited audio here. The entire season of Capture the CISO including this finale was hosted by Johna Till Johnson, CEO, Nemertes. Our judges for the final episode were: Yaron Levi, CISO, Dolby Laboratories John Overbaugh, CISO, Alpine Software Group The four contestants in the final episode will be: Ivan Tsarynny, CEO, Feroot Vladimir (Vladi) Sandler, CEO, Lightspin Leonid Belkind, co-founder and CTO, Torq Aviv Grafi, founder and CTO, Votiro Check out the contestants, our shows, links to subscribe to the podcast, and all the vendors demo videos on the Capture the CISO show page. We welcome active discussion and debate about all vendor contestants. And a huge thanks to our finals contestants who are also sponsors of Capture the CISO. Feroot Lightspin Torq Votiro
To watch the demo videos, and see the transcript, check out the blog post of this episode on CISOseries.com. Welcome to episode three of Capture the CISO, hosted by Johna Till Johnson, CEO, Nemertes. Our judges are Dan Walsh, CISO, Village MD and Hadas Cassorla, CISO, M1. Our contestants: Ivan Tsarynny, CEO, Feroot David Leone, Sr. Customer Success Manager, Perception Point Zack Ganot, CEO, Sunday Security Huge thanks to all our contestants who are also sponsors of Capture the CISO Feroot Perception Point Sunday Security
Welcome to episode two of Capture the CISO, hosted by Johna Till Johnson, CEO, Nemertes. Our judges are Edward Contreras, CISO, Frost Bank and Mark Eggleston, CISO, CSC. Our contestants: Vladimir (Vladi) Sandler, CEO, Lightspin Nick Popovich, hacker in residence, PlexTrac Leonid Belkind, co-founder and CTO, Torq Huge thanks to all our contestants who are also sponsors of Capture the CISO. Lightspin Lightspin's next-gen cloud security platform built on Neo4j graph database prioritizes risk in cloud and Kubernetes environments focusing DevSecOps efforts on the critical issues that matter most. Our developer friendly platform provides plug and play remediation in the form of IaC, and scans pre-production code to catch misconfigurations, which are the main cause of breaches. Lighstpin proudly focuses on small and medium-sized businesses running workloads in the cloud, offering a free version of the platform including the industry's only graph-based Attack Path risk prioritization. For an affordable, efficient, and secure cloud experience loved by engineers learn more at www.lightspin.io. PlexTrac A better security posture begins and ends with PlexTrac, the Proactive Cybersecurity Management Platform that streamlines your entire security workflow. Maximize ROI by aggregating findings from all your sources, generating robust analytics, cutting reporting time in half, and assigning and tracking remediation — all in one platform. Facilitate collaboration and communication across offensive engagements, monitor team performance, and analyze your security posture in real-time. PlexTrac makes cybersecurity teams more efficient, effective, and proactive to help them win the right security battles. Generate better reports. Promote closer collaboration. Enable faster remediation. Gain more insights. PlexTrac is the must-have platform for security teams. Torq Torq is a no-code automation platform for security teams. It helps people of any skill level automate workflows to streamline and reinforce security processes, using a drag-and-drop editor and guided configurations. Workflows can be built with templates from our ever-growing library, helping users automate even the most complex processes with ease. The platform readily integrates with any other system out of the box—no special connectors, just limitless integrations. With Torq, teams maximize protection while minimizing complexity, creating a more dynamic and enduring security posture.
Welcome to episode one of Capture the CISO, hosted by Johna Till Johnson, CEO, Nemertes. Please go to the blog post for this episode to check out the demo videos of all the contestants. Our judges are Shawn Bowen, CISO, World Fuel Services and Mike Johnson, co-host, CISO Series Podcast and CISO for Fastly. Our contestants: Christopher Gomes, head of product, Conveyor Jake Flynn, sales engineer, Pentera Aviv Grafi, founder and CTO, Votiro Huge thanks to all our contestants who are also sponsors of Capture the CISO Conveyor Conveyor makes security reviews fast, easy, and accurate for both vendors and their customers. How? By making it easy for 3rd party risk teams to get basic info on vendors, request access to their security docs (like SOC 2s and PenTests), and get their security questions answered without actually issuing a questionnaire. Check out our video to see how Conveyor can save you 71% of your time on your vendor security reviews. Pentera Pentera's Automated Security Validation Platform is designed to help teams increase their security posture against modern day threats across the entire attack surface. Evaluate your security readiness with continuous and consistent autonomous testing with granular visibility into every execution along the way. Validate your tools are working effectively by safely emulating attacks & prioritize your remediation efforts with true contextual driven results. With Mitre ATT&CK framework mapping, stay on top and test your environment against adversary techniques to create an optimized process from testing to in-production. Don't just operate, validate! Votiro Can you trust the files and content entering your organization? Votiro Cloud's Zero Trust open API proactively disarms files of known, unknown, & zero-day malware threats at scale without adding friction, interrupting user or application workflows, or impacting file fidelity. Votiro reduces work, alerts, & risk for IT and security teams while enabling the seamless flow of safe files. Votiro is tool-agnostic, and provides virtually limitless auto-scale capabilities to handle any file throughput and the greatest span of file formats, preventing malicious files uploaded to web apps, portals, data management platforms, and cloud services.
Two members of the CyberWire's hash table of experts: Steve Winterfeld: Akamai's Advisory CISO Paul Calatayud: Palo Alto Networks' Chief Security Officer for the Americas discuss SD-WAN architecture and security. Resources: “A History of SD-WAN,” by CATO. “Broadband history,” by Dani Warner, USwitch, 19 July 2018. “SD-WAN: What's the big deal for security leadership?” by Rick Howard, CSO Perspectives, The CyberWire, 10 October 2020. “The 6 Biggest SASE Buys of 2020 (So Far)” by Tobias Mann, SDxCentral, 26 August 2020. “The Secret to SASE is the Right SD-WAN,” by Network World from IDG, 2020. “What is MPLS: What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching,” by Neal Weinberg and Johna Till Johnson, Network World, 16 March 2016. “What is SD-WAN and why do you need it? Quick Explainer Video,” by Drew Schulke, Dell, 18 October 2019. “Your security stack is moving: SASE is coming,” by Rick Howard, CSO Perspectives, The CyberWire, 5 April 2020.
Rick discusses the history of enterprise connectivity, the benefits of SD-WAN, and the security obstacles to avoid when enterprises deploy SD-WAN today. He also makes the case for a coupling of SD-WAN and SASE. Resources: “A Brief History of the Enterprise WAN: How little has changed in the last 15 years,” by By Andy Gottlieb, Network World, 6 April 2012. “Bandwidth Key Words: DS1, T-1, DS2, T-2, DS3, T-3, DS4, T-4, OC-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, ATM, Bandwidth Resources, MPLS, Satellite, Internet and Bandwidth Speeds: Explaining Bandwidth The Easy Way.” SolveForce. “Broadband history,” by Dani Warner, USwitch, 19 July 2018. “Cybersecurity Innovation Starts Here,” Lee Klarich, Palo Alto Networks, 13 November 2019. "MEF White Paper MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Services,” MEF, November 2019. “MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Services & Certifications – Frequently Asked Questions,” by MEF “SD-WAN drives managed network services trends for 2020,” By Tom Nolle, CIMI Corporation, TechTarget, December 2019. "SD-WAN Explained: The Ultimate Guide to SD-WAN Architecture,” by TectTarget “SD-WAN (Software-defined WAN),” TechTarger “SD-WAN vs. MPLS vs. Public Internet,” by Idan Hershkovich, CATO Networks, 28 February 2018. “SD-WAN security explained,” by ERICKA CHICKOWSKI, AT&T Business, 25 June 2020. “SD-WAN - What it means for enterprise networking, security, cloud computing "Software-defined wide area networks, a software approach managing wide-area networks, offers ease of deployment, central manageability and reduced costs, and can improve connectivity to branch offices and the cloud,” By Michael Cooney, Network World, 9 October 2019. “The 6 Biggest SASE Buys of 2020 (So Far)” by Tobias Mann, sdx central, 26 August 2020. “The Secret to SASE is the Right SD-WAN,” by Networkworld by IDG, 2020. “Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet,” by Andrew Blum, Published January 2012 by Ecco. “What is MPLS: What you need to know about multi-protocol label switchinig,” By Neal Weinberg and Johna Till Johnson, NetworkWorld, 16 March 2016. “What is SD-WAN and why do you need it? Quick Explainer Video,” Drew Schulke, Dell, 18 October 2019. “Why SD-WAN is the next breed of WAN optimization,” By Sean Michael Kerner, TechTarget. “X.25 – What is X.25 Networks?” By Dinesh Thakur, Computer Notes. “Your security stack is moving: SASE is coming,” by Rick Howard, CSO Perspectives, The CyberWire, 5 April 2020.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro. The post Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU appeared first on Packet Pushers.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro. The post Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU appeared first on Packet Pushers.
It's the Network Break! This week we analyze Cisco's $500 million acquisition of a container-based and serverless application monitor, Intel's announcement of Mount Evans, an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) for network and storage offload, and more tech news. Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and founder of Nemertes Research, joins Greg Ferro. The post Network Break 347: Cisco Acquires Container App Monitor; Intel Unwraps Mount Evans IPU appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking. The post Network Break 331: Proofpoint Goes Private In $12 Billion Deal; Defense Dept. Unveils IPv4 Address Cache appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking. The post Network Break 331: Proofpoint Goes Private In $12 Billion Deal; Defense Dept. Unveils IPv4 Address Cache appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Guest analyst Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nemertes Research, joins the Network Break to discuss a variety of IT news including the rising price of copper, Proofpoint going private in a $12.3 billion deal, why the US Defense Department suddenly began advertising a huge block of IPv4 addresses, and space networking. The post Network Break 331: Proofpoint Goes Private In $12 Billion Deal; Defense Dept. Unveils IPv4 Address Cache appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Guest commentator Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, brings her analytical eye to this week's Network Break. Coverage includes new Arista campus switches, a Dutch telco shutting down legacy TDM systems, Google Chrome getting its own certificate store, and a massive Bitcoin seizure.
Guest commentator Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, brings her analytical eye to this week's Network Break. Coverage includes new Arista campus switches, a Dutch telco shutting down legacy TDM systems, Google Chrome getting its own certificate store, and a massive Bitcoin seizure.
Guest commentator Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, brings her analytical eye to this week's Network Break. Coverage includes new Arista campus switches, a Dutch telco shutting down legacy TDM systems, Google Chrome getting its own certificate store, and a massive Bitcoin seizure.