Keeping relevant in this industry can be challenging. With the DevOps, SDN, public cloud and insert acronym here revolutions, everything is moving so quickly consuming information can feel like drinking from a fire hose. A strategy of mine is to listen to industry related podcast’s both security and data networking. Podcasts are a great way
Traceroute across ECMP Interesting article from Jeremy Stretch regarding the effect on Traceroute across an ECMP Network depending on the OS used: http://packetlife.net/blog/2015/apr/27/traceroute-and-not-so-equal-ecmp/ Free Networking Books Packet Pushers post with a list of technical books that are free! http://packetpushers.net/free-networking-books/ Palo Alto Networks Podcast New Podcast from Palo Alto Networks to subscribe too http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/04/dont-panic-unit-42-podcast/ Certificate types
I use 1Password myself and learned some new features I was not aware of: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2909541/security0/8-reasons-to-use-1password-that-dont-involve-storing-passwords.html#tk.rss_all Good read about a real example of surviving a DDOS attack: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2909523/network-security/a-true-story-of-combating-a-large-scale-ddos-attack.html#tk.rss_all Great Article regarding Openflow / VXLAN and Cisco ACI: http://www.networkcomputing.com/understanding-openflow-vxlan-and-ciscos-aci/a/d-id/1319943?_mc=RSS_NWC_EDT Palo Alto Networks named best next generation firewall: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/04/palo-alto-networks-named-best-next-generation-firewall-by-sans/ New Star Wars Trailer Sorry, this had to go
SSL Interception Interesting article regarding SSL interception deployments and associated risks. It would certainly be advisable to check your own deployments. http://www.cert.org/blogs/certcc/post.cfm?EntryID=221 SSL Troubleshooting While we are on the subject of SS, here’s a useful article regarding troubleshooting SSL connections using openssl. The article covers the following: 1. Check the Connection 2. Decoding a Base64 Certificate
HTTP 2.0 HTTP 2.0 is going to start picking up pace this year. Check out this packet pushers post which has an accompanying podcast: http://packetpushers.net/show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-network-thing-happening-on-the-internet-today/ Lenovo Man-In-The-middle for https traffic I’ve owned 3 Lenovo thinkpads for over 10 years and have to say I’m really disappointed with what’s been uncovered this week. The below link
Internet of Things – Wifi encryption key leaked to the internet Scary article about how an ‘Internet of things’ in this case a wireless enabled home weather station leaks your wireless encryption key out the internet in the clear! I’ll shortly be writing a blog about how to use a Palo Alto firewall to detect
Palo Alto Interesting article from Palo Alto regarding Cryptowall here Multigigabit Ethernet 2.5 / 5.0Gbps NBASE-T There will likely be adoption of these new Ethernet standards due to the limitation in copper cabling. This excellent blog post written by David Gee explains the requirement. The table below was taken from this document by Cisco You will
Nice blog post from Palo Alto Networks about Alan Turing the famous cryptographer that some say ended the 2nd world war 2 years early. Read here Podcast featuring interview with Nir Zuk – Palo Alto Networks Listen to an interview with Nir Zuk CTO of Palo Alto Networks about their new end point protection product