David Bombal
David Bombal
Want to learn about IT? Want to get ahead in your career? Well, this is the right place!
On this channel, I discuss Python, Ethical Hacking, Networking, Network Automation, CCNA, Virtualization and other IT related topics.
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All the best!
David
On this channel, I discuss Python, Ethical Hacking, Networking, Network Automation, CCNA, Virtualization and other IT related topics.
This YouTube channel has new videos every week! Subscribe for technical, detailed, no fluff content.
David’s details:
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/usKSyzb
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbombal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidbombal.co
Website: http://www.davidbombal.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal
All the best!
David
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Feb 20, 2026 • 20min
#542: How AI Fixes 77% of Support Issues
Liz Centoni, Cisco EVP leading Customer Experience and support teams, explains how AI is transforming TAC and live network support. She covers agent-augmented workflows, intelligent call routing that correctly directs 77% of cases, automated planning and config hygiene, and the challenges of testing and governing agent-to-agent systems.
Feb 20, 2026 • 25min
#541: When the Internet Dies During Surgery
Rob (Presidio CTO) — network and AI systems pro helping medical nonprofits. Grady Nichols — IT lead running shipboard data centers and connectivity for a floating hospital. They tackle Faraday-cage woes, designing redundant ship networks and Wi‑Fi, using AI for clinical scribing, coping with cut fiber mid‑surgery, and planning next‑gen hospital ship tech.
Feb 20, 2026 • 22min
#540: Why ChatGPT Can’t Fix Your Network
Kamal Hathi, Splunk GM and former DocuSign CTO who built data products at Microsoft, discusses why standard LLMs struggle with machine telemetry. He explains MachineGPT, time-series foundation models, and how open-weights models can predict outages and surface pre-exploit anomalies. Conversation covers interfaces from notebooks to natural-language AI Canvas and the security and trust challenges of AI applied to observability.
Feb 20, 2026 • 23min
#539: Agentic AI is breaking your Cybersecurity controls (and how to solve it)
Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security with deep incident response and AI experience, explains how agentic AI is expanding the attack surface at machine speed. He outlines risks like shadow MCP servers, agents touching PII, and why perimeter controls fail. He also covers model provenance, agent identity and dynamic authorization, plus network controls like SD-WAN and SASE for AI traffic visibility.
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Feb 18, 2026 • 25min
#538: Official Cisco Ethical Hacking Course Is FREE
Lacey Senko, Cisco learning programs manager who runs RevUp and NetAcad resources. Ryan Rose, Cisco certification strategist shaping security, AI infrastructure, and wireless tracks. They unpack free AI training and CE credit hacks. They reveal a new Ethical Hacking Red Team certificate and the return of wireless tracks. They point to where to find free courses and exam blueprints.
Feb 18, 2026 • 53min
#537: Best OSINT Tools 2026: What Pros Use Daily
MJ Banias, an investigative researcher and former journalist who runs BullshitHunting.com, shares a toolbox for digital investigations. He highlights username-scrapers, Google dork generators, open-directory crawlers, focused search engines, and evidence-capture platforms. Short demos show how these tools find hidden files, aggregate profiles, and organize investigative leads.
Feb 18, 2026 • 32min
#536: Inside the Cisco 8000: 100Tbps Capacity
Will Eatherton, Cisco infrastructure and networking leader with ASIC and system design roots. He walks through Cisco's G300 silicon and 100Tbps chassis. He explains why AI data centers are switching to liquid cooling. He outlines scale-out networking changes for massive GPU clusters and the telemetry and management needed to run them.
Feb 2, 2026 • 51min
#535: Encryption vs Hashing: What's the real difference?
Dr. Mike Pound, computer scientist and Computerphile contributor who specializes in cryptography, explains why hashing is one-way while encryption is reversible. He covers hash properties like the avalanche effect and collisions. He also discusses rainbow tables, salting, SHA-2 vs SHA-3, length-extension attacks, and how hashing fits into signatures and integrity checks.
Jan 25, 2026 • 1h 32min
#534: How Dark Web Market Owners Get CAUGHT
Stephen Sims, security researcher and instructor specializing in web, API, and LLM security, breaks down the Darknet Marketplace Bible as an OPSEC primer for privacy and defenders. He explains Tor and Whonix internals, PGP workflows, crypto choices like Monero, and common mistakes that lead to marketplace takedowns. Practical privacy and monitoring tactics are highlighted in short, punchy discussions.
Jan 19, 2026 • 47min
#533: Best Hacking Tools for 2026: From Linux to DragonOS
OTW, author of Linux Basics for Hackers and cybersecurity educator, shares the must-have tools for 2026. Short takes on Linux and Python as foundations. Quick looks at Nmap, Wireshark, Burp Suite, Metasploit and Nessus. Deep dive into DragonOS and SDRs for wireless and IoT work. Notes on virtualization, IDS/logging, building Linux firewalls and using AI to boost productivity.
