Best Adopting Zero Trust Podcasts (2025)

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TNO050: Resiliency and Transparency with Andy Lapteff 57:59

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Today Scott interviews Andy Lapteff. He opens up about his non-linear career path, starting from a working class background and his physical jobs in telecom to becoming a senior product marketing manager and podcaster. Join us as Andy shares candid stories of how he developed his resilience and the heartwarming origin story for the Art... Read more…

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HN806: Let’s Get NUTS! 46:07

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Unit testing is a software development practice for checking that an individual component of code works before integrating that unit with other components in a larger program. A new open source project called Network Unit Testing System, or NUTS, brings the same concept to network automation. The big idea is that by incorporating unit tests into...…

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IPB188: IPv6 Adoption for an Entire Country 35:54

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What does it take for an entire country to adopt IPv6? Our guest today is Tenanoia (Noia) Simona, CEO of Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation, the country’s sole telecommunications provider. She’s here to walk us through the difficulties of connecting the many islands of Tuvalu and their journey to achieving one of the world’s highest IPv6 adoptio…

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N4N043: Redundancy vs. High Availability Part 1 1:00:28

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In today’s chat, Holly and Ethan consider a question from listener Douglas who asks, “How do you approach designing a network for high availability and redundancy?” They start by defining differences between redundancy and high availability, and talk about Holly’s experience with her own customers. Then they share examples of how to achieve redunda…

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D2DO287: Leveling Up in Data Science 37:51

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Ever wonder what it takes to level up your career in data science? Senior Data Scientist Darya Petrashka joins Ned and Kyler to share her personal journey from management and linguistics into data science, the real difference between a junior and a senior role, and helps us get under the “data science umbrella” to see... Read more »…

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HW065: Using Orb to Monitor the Quality of Your Internet Connections 32:26

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With the help of Josh Hardy, Co-Founder and CTO of Orb, we introduce Orb. Orb is a suite app for OS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux that is a new way to look at your internet connectivity. Josh gives us a little background on why and how Orb was created, He then goes into more detail... Read more »By Packet Pushers

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PP087: Why SBOMs Are Cooler and More Useful Than You Think 46:08

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Just what’s inside that commercial software you bought? Does it contain open-source components, NPM packages, or other third-party code? How could you find out? The answer is a Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, a machine-readable inventory of a finished piece of software. Why should you care about SBOMs? Our guest, Natalie Somersall, is here... …

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HS117: Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives: What That Means for Your Organization (Sponsored) 34:13

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Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) initiatives aren’t just “the right thing to do”, they can also save companies real dollars, particularly if they’re investing in data centers and other infrastructure. Join Jonathan Ciccio, Continuous Improvement Manager for The Siemon Company, as we discuss The Siemon Company’s ESG initiatives. The Siemon Co…

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NB552: Nokia Switches On AI Ops; IBM Seeks a Quantum of Advantage 44:58

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Take a Network Break! Red Hat Samba server has a remote command execution vulnerability, and we cover some follow-up on fusion as a viable energy source (still a work in progress). On the news front, we search for signs in SoftBank’s sale of its Nividia stake, Mplify debuts a new certificate on carrier Ethernet for... Read more »…

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Tech Bytes: Monitoring AI Agents and MCP Servers with Cisco ThousandEyes (Sponsored) 17:38

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If you’re building, testing, or using AI agents and services, how can you get network visibility into, and ensure performance of, these tools? On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk with sponsor Cisco ThousandEyes about how to monitor and measure performance of AI agents, AI models and services, and Model Context Protocol servers. We’ll get... Read…

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HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG 47:46

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NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the continuing advancement of an open, secure, and robust Internet. At the NANOG Conference 95 in late October 2025, Ethan Banks chatted with Steve Feldman, a member of NANOG’s Board of Directors. Steve has been involved with NANOG since the very first... Read mor…

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LIU004: From Fast Food to Leading Operations at an ISP 1:02:07

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Think you need a degree or a ton of certificates to succeed in tech? Think again. Matthew Oborne joins our hosts Alexis Bertholf and Kevin Nanns to discuss how he went from working fast food to leading operations at an ISP. Your starting point doesn’t define your ceiling; resilience, adaptability, and a willingness to learn... Read more »…

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TCG062: The Tech Expertise Deficit with Russ White 48:01

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Today we delve into the tech expertise deficit and why technical depth and decades of doing the work matter more than social media followers and content creation hype. Our guest is Russ White, engineer, author, teacher, and certification developer. We begin with current events in AI, and then investigate the differences between career and influence…

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NAN106: Unimus: Network Automation By and For Network Engineers (Sponsored) 44:49

3h ago44:49

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Tomas Kirnak, CEO of Unimus, joins Eric Chou in this sponsored episode to introduce Unimus, an on-premise network configuration management system built by network engineers to solve real-world problems. In this deep dive they discuss Unimus’ proprietary “Behavioral Tree” for automatic device discovery, the platform’s vendor support, the 70/30 rule,…

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HS116: Nth-Party Risk May Put You on the (Block) Chain Gang 32:57

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The evolution of the modern, Internet-driven economy has created the conditions for essentially unbounded Nth-party risks (that is, risks from your suppliers, and risks from your suppliers’ suppliers, and risks from your suppliers’ suppliers’ suppliers, ad infinitum). Nth party risks exist in public clouds, SaaS, software and hardware supply chains…

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PP086: Using Let’s Encrypt and the ACME Protocol for Domain Validation Certificates 44:39

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Certificates are the socks of IT—everyone needs them, and you always lose track of a few. On today’s show we dive into the ACME protocol, an IETF standard to help automate how a domain owner gets a domain validation certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA). Our guest, Ed Harmoush, a former network engineer with AWS... Read more »…

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Will AI and digital twins make animal testing in drug discovery obsolete with Professor Julie Frearson 23:32

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AI and digital twins are redrawing the boundaries of drug discovery. Once defined by lab benches, animal studies, and years of trial and error, the field is now embracing virtual methodologies that promise faster, safer, and more precise innovation. But could these technologies ever make animal testing obsolete? In this episode of Tech Tomorrow, Da…

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From Data to Performance: Understanding and Improving Your AI Model 26:42

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Modern data analytic methods and tools—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) classifiers—are revolutionizing prediction capabilities and automation through their capacity to analyze and classify data. To produce such results, these methods depend on correlations. However, an overreliance on correlations can lead to predic…

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NB551: Cisco Adds AI to Tech Support; Cryptography Hits a Post-Quantum Milestone 28:59

10d ago28:59

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Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Unified Contact Center Express. On the news front it’s a Cisco triple play: the company brings AI to professional services and tech support with Cisco IQ, debuts converged infrastructure for the AI edge, and launches a new cert geared for running AI data... Read more »…

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HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored) 56:07

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How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across the planet? How do you build such a service for scale, performance, and resiliency? One option is to build your own PoPs or use colocation facilities, run your own infrastructure stack, and connect everything...…

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TNO049: Automated Network Testing and Validation 52:50

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What does network testing and validation really mean? How do testing and validation fit within an automation workflow? Is it possible to run meaningful tests without coding skills? Dan Wade from BlueAlly answers these questions and offers practical insights into building trust in automation through test environments, using AI for ideation and probl…

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IPB187: IPv6 RFC Updates 20:19

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Today the IPv6 Buzz crew provides updates on the latest in IPv6 standards, RFCs, and best practices. They break down the recent discussions around RFC 6052, explore the options for RFC 8215, and share Nick’s spin on the now defunct testipv6.com site. Episode Links: RFC 6052 RFC 8215 RFC 6598 IPv6.army…

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N4N042: Meet MACsec 52:19

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MACsec is a protocol for encrypting Ethernet frames on a local (though not always local) network. Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky have an ELI5 (explain like I’m 5) discussion as to what exactly is MACsec and how it differs from IPsec. They talk about when and whether you need to implement MACsec with all the... Read more »…

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D2DO286: Scaling Kubernetes Across Clouds – Identity, DNS, and Security 40:39

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If you think managing Kubernetes clusters is hard, what about managing Kubernetes clusters across three different public clouds? We dive into the challenges that arises from running multi-cloud Kubernetes workloads. These challenges include workload identity, DNS query resolutions, and security. Here to help us navigate this complexity and offer po…

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PP085: News Roundup – Naked Satellite Signals, Account Recovery Buddies, Busting Ghost Networks 52:28

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Did you know college students are snooping on satellite transmissions? On today’s news roundup we discuss new research in which university investigators use off-the-shelf equipment to intercept traffic from geostationary satellites and discover that a lot of it is unencrypted. We also dig into the credential hygiene lessons we can learn from a corp…

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NAN105: Campus Network Automation, Powered by Cisco Agentic Workflows (Sponsored) 44:30

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Cisco Workflows is a new platform that makes network automation easier, smarter, and safer. On today’s episode, sponsored by Cisco, we get introduced to Cisco Workflows by Stephen Orr, Distinguished Solutions Engineer; and Reid Butler, Director of Product Management. They break down how Workflows helps you ditch repetitive tasks, roll out changes f…

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HW064: An Introduction to nOversight 32:10

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nOversight is a Wi-Fi analysis app from Numerous Networks for iOS and Mac iOS that helps both end users and professionals do a better job of understanding how their Wi-Fi is running and how it’s working on their individual devices. Today we talk to Ben Toner, the creator of nOversight to give us the details... Read more »…

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NB550: A Cornucopia of AI Switches; DNS Strikes Again 29:38

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Take a Network Break! We start with some educational content on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, and sound the alarm about a sandbox escape affecting the Firefox browser. On the news front, a DNS issue triggers a major Azure outage that affected numerous services and caused problems around the globe, Palo Alto Networks announces enhancements to... R…

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TNO048: Ops to Orchestrated: An Architect’s Automation Journey 42:09

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On today’s show, sponsored by Itential, we talk about automation in the real world. Guest Jesse Ford is an automation architect at Itential. We talk about his career journey, how he got into network automation, how he decides which is the best tool for a job, and why tool diversity isn’t the same as chaos.... Read more »…

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HN803: How to Start a Networking Meetup 58:47

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On today’s episode, we take a break from one’s and zero’s for a discussion about starting a networking meetup. Our guest is Steinn “Steinzi” Örvar, who recently founded the ISNOG, a network operators’ group in Iceland. We quiz Steinzi about what worked and what didn’t. We also pick his brain for the nitty-gritty details about... Read more »…

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Safety Analysis for AI Systems 36:14

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How can you ever know whether an LLM is safe to use? Even self-hosted LLM systems are vulnerable to adversarial prompts left on the internet and waiting to be found by system search engines. These attacks and others exploit the complexity of even seemingly secure AI systems. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Enginee…

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LIU003: A Chat With ‘The Cloud Therapist’ 44:24

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Your background and experiences outside of tech can become a significant factor in your tech career. Guest Chris Williams is a good example; he talks about how his undergraduate and graduate studies in psychology influenced his work as a Developer Relations Manger at Hashicorp. Hosts Alexis Bertholf and Kevin Nanns chat with him about how... Read m…

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PP084: Inside the CVE Process With Cisco (Sponsored) 44:50

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CVEs, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, are such a routine aspect of tech that most IT pros probably take them for granted. But like many things we take for granted, the CVE process takes some serious organizational infrastructure to function. On today’s Packet Protector, sponsored by Cisco, we talk about the organizations and processes that…

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TCG061: How Are You Using AI? 49:01

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Join William Collins and Evyonne Sharp as they catch up on all things AI. They discuss the AI bubble and how it relates to venture capital, stock, and company evaluations. They talk about the AI experience for the average person, the adoption rate of AI tools, and how the AI infrastructure buildout might affect the... Read more »…

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NAN104: The Art and Science of Writing a Network Automation Book 57:53

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Host Eric Chou talks with Jeff Kala, co-author of the newly released “Network Automation Cookbook 2nd Edition,” to discuss his book and the experiences that led him from networking to network automation author. They discuss Jeff’s learning style and why it was helpful when working on his book. Lastly, they dig into Jeff’s predictions on... Read mor…

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HS115: Cyber-Risk Assessment and Cybersecurity Budgeting: You’re (Probably) Doing It Wrong 36:15

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To understand how much to spend on cybersecurity, you have to accurately assess or quantify your risks. Too many people still peg their cybersecurity spend to their IT budget; that is, they’ll look at what they’re spending on IT, and then allocate a percentage of that to cybersecurity. That may have made some sense when... Read more »…

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Will the next biotech breakthrough be digital before it’s biological with Bibi Ephraim 27:44

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AI is transforming biotechnology from the inside out. What was once a world of petri dishes and pipettes is now increasingly powered by algorithms, models, and digital twins. But as machine learning accelerates drug discovery and reshapes clinical trials, how far can we go before biology itself becomes the follower, not the leader? In this episode …

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NB549: Startups Take on Switch, ASIC Incumbents; Google Claims Quantum Advantage 49:32

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Take a Network Break! Companies spying on…I mean, monitoring…their employees via software called WorkExaminer should be aware of a login bypass that needs to be locked down. On the news front, we opine on whether it’s worth trying to design your way around AWS outages, and speculate on the prospects of a new Ethernet switch... Read more »…

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Tech Bytes: Why Equinix Should Be Part of Your AI Network Strategy (Sponsored) 18:40

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AI infrastructure conversations tend to be dominated by GPUs, data center buildouts, and power and water consumption. But networks also play a crucial role, whether to support huge file transfers to a compute cluster, stream telemetry from edge locations to feed AI pipelines, or provide high-speed, low latency connectivity for AI agents. On today’s…

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HN802: Unifying Networking and Security with Fortinet SASE: Architecture, Reality, and Lessons Learned (Sponsored) 58:39

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The architecture and tech stack of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution will influence how the service performs, the robustness of its security controls, and the complexity of its operations. Sponsor Fortinet joins Heavy Networking to make the case that a unified offering, which integrates SD-WAN and SSE from a single vendor, provides a... …

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TNO047: Advice From Both Sides of the Network Aisle 49:35

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Senad Palislamovic has held many roles in his time, from engineer to network operator to sales engineer and back again. He’s been around long enough to see trends come and go. Senad visits Total Network Operations to share some of his observations on network automation, AI for NetOps, and the quality of network data. Senad... Read more »…

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IPB186: An Inside Look at RFC 9872 for Discovering v6 Prefixes 20:10

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RFC 9872 makes recommendations for NAT64 prefix discovery for hosts supporting v4-to-v6 translation. Co-host Nick Buralgio is a co-author of this RFC, so we’re taking the opportunity to talk about it in detail. We discuss the problems RFC 9872 is addressing and why a new RFC was needed for operational guidance, not necessarily defining a... Read mo…

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Getting Your Software Supply Chain In Tune with SBOM Harmonization 23:14

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Software bills of materials or SBOMs are critical to software security and supply chain risk management. Ideally, regardless of the SBOM tool, the output should be consistent for a given piece of software. But that is not always the case. The divergence of results can undermine confidence in software quality and security. In our latest podcast from…

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N4N041: Switched Virtual Interface (SVI) and Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) 49:58

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If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between a Switched Virtual Interface (SVI) and Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB), today’s show is for you! Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky start with some history and the basics of communication between layer 2 and layer 3 and then explain how the concepts of SVI and IRB... Read more »…

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D2DO285: The Death of IaC Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 39:52

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While declaring the death of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Terraform may get you clicks on LinkedIn, IaC is alive and kicking. On today’s Day Two DevOps we talk about why IaC still matters. Guest Malcolm Matalka argues that IaC provides the tools and a model for managing infrastructure across its lifecycle in a structured... Read more »…

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PP083: A CISO’s Perspective on Model Context Protocol (MCP) 44:03

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source protocol that enables AI agents to connect to data, tools, workflows, and other agents both within and outside of enterprise borders. As organizations dive head-first into AI projects, MCP and other agentic protocols are being quickly adopted. And that means security and network teams need to understan…

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HW063: Designing a Wireless-First Office 23:28

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A wireless-first office is a sensible goal these days when most laptops don’t have an Ethernet port and lots of devices use Wi-Fi. Wireless and network architect Phil Sosaya led the transition to wireless-first offices at sites across the globe. He details his design approach, including why he doesn’t bother with site survey software. He... Read mo…