The Everything Feed - All Packet Pushers Pods

Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on data centers in space, and sound the Red Alert about a sandbox failure in Claude Code and a rash of Microsoft zero-days. On the news front, Cisco announces a 102.4Tbps switch ASIC in its Silicon One line of homegrown chips, and adds AI agent monitoring... Read more »

Scott talks with Mark Gebert from Verizon about something that sits at the heart of every reliable enterprise network: testing. Automation is moving fast in the telco world, but automation without testing is just an accident waiting to happen. They unpack what makes enterprise service provisioning so complex—multi-vendor networks, optical and IP gear, security functions,... Read more »

Our topic today is building and running network workflows. If your network workflows live in a spreadsheet, a SharePoint document, or in your head, you really need a workflow manager. A workflow manager brings scalability, repeatability, and consistency to your network operations team. In this sponsored episode, we discuss Cisco Crosswork Workflow Manager. Our guests... Read more »

Kevin and Alexis sit down with Melissa Brooks, a Senior Cloud Engineer at Aritzia, to discuss how she went from being a “terrible waitress” to going back to school for a diploma in network security. They explore how she used a strategic, “reverse engineered” approach to goal setting to land on a career in tech.... Read more »

Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy at FusionAuth and identity standards contributor, talks about how AI agents complicate customer identity, agent-specific authentication, and standards like OAuth/MCP. He outlines risks from non-deterministic agents and the need for agent modeling, finer-grained consent, guardrails, and practical ways practitioners can safely experiment.

Matt Remke, Senior Engagement Manager at Network2Code who helps scale network automation for large enterprises. He recounts real-world wins and missteps in large migrations. He stresses planning conservatively, mapping workflows for high impact, inspecting often, and keeping the right stakeholders informed. Practical delivery-focused lessons and team practices for getting automation to stick.

Everything old is new again in today’s Packet Protector news roundup, as a decade-old Telnet exploit resurfaces, and Microsoft unfolds its roadmap to phase out the ancient NTLM protocol. In other news, Google takes down a sprawling residential proxy network, the popular Notepad++ app takes steps to recover from a serious compromise, and a Polish... Read more »

The recent U.S. Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, is the administration’s latest attempt to prevent the enforcement of most of the AI laws passed in individual US states. Because it is only an executive order (EO), it cannot directly nullify, supersede, forestall, or put a pause on state-level laws.... Read more »

Take a Network Break! We start with a trio of follow-ups, including a correction regarding Mplify certifications, Cisco proposing new OSI layers, and free-space optics. Our Red Alert sounds off about a remote code execution vulnerability in the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile agent. On the news front, Broadcom announces new silicon for wireless APs for... Read more »

Nick Baraglio, network planner and IPv6 advocate with operational best-practice chops. Chris Rapier, high-performance data transfer scientist and creator of HPN-SSH. They discuss how developers often assume a perfect network and why that can hide inefficient apps. They cover sockets, TCP windows, SSH throughput, inspecting socket state, and ways to bridge the developer-networker knowledge gap.