Episodios

  • PP026: Security Considerations for Working from Anywhere

    PP026: Security Considerations for Working from Anywhere
    Aug 13 2024
    Remote work is now a norm. And whether it’s a day or two at home every week, or relocating overseas so you can log in to the office from an Italian piazza or a beach in Thailand, there are lots of opportunities to do our jobs outside traditional workplaces. On today’s Packet Protector, we look... Read more »
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    43 m
  • PP025: Wi-Fi Security Part 2 – Listener Q&A

    PP025: Wi-Fi Security Part 2 – Listener Q&A
    Aug 6 2024
    On today’s Packet Protector we answer listener questions about Wi-Fi security with guest Stephen Orr. Stephen is Chair of the Security Technical Task Group for the Wi-Fi Alliance and a Distinguished Solutions Engineer at Cisco. Questions include what recommendations Stephen would make for using multiple SSIDs vs. role-based device segmentation, what he sees as the... Read more »
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    34 m
  • PP024: Considering Resiliency in a Time of Global Outages

    PP024: Considering Resiliency in a Time of Global Outages
    Jul 30 2024
    In the wake of one of the largest global IT outages, resiliency is the theme of today’s show. We dig into the CrowdStrike debacle as well as an Azure outage that kinda flew under the radar. We also look at the Resiliency Planning Framework Playbook from CISA and other frameworks for building resilient infrastructure. We... Read more »
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    38 m
  • PP023: Wi-Fi Security Part 1 – Unpacking Vulnerabilities and Exploits

    PP023: Wi-Fi Security Part 1 – Unpacking Vulnerabilities and Exploits
    Jul 23 2024
    From an SSID confusion exploit to a RADIUS attack to a critical vulnerability in a Windows Wi-Fi driver, the past several months have seen multiple attacks and exploits targeting the wireless realm. On today’s Packet Protector podcast we talk with Wi-Fi security expert Stephen Orr to get his take on the severity of these issues,... Read more »
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    44 m
  • PP022: Inside an Equipment Test Lab

    PP022: Inside an Equipment Test Lab
    Jul 9 2024
    Third-party test labs can help buyers make decisions about which products to purchase. While a testing lab can’t mimic the conditions of your specific production environment, it can assess a product’s fundamental capabilities and measure throughput, performance, and–in the case of security devices–effectiveness against a test suite of malware or attack techniques. On today’s episode... Read more »
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    47 m
  • PP021: Critical Vulnerabilities, AI-Assisted Scams, Compromised VPNs, and More Security News

    PP021: Critical Vulnerabilities, AI-Assisted Scams, Compromised VPNs, and More Security News
    Jul 2 2024
    It’s an all-news episode for this week’s Packet Protector podcast. We cover critical vulnerabilities in the MOVEit file transfer software and in thousands of ASUS routers, and a remote code execution vulnerability in a Windows wireless driver that you really should patch. We discuss a Wall Street Journal article about how AI tools are helping... Read more »
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    37 m
  • PP020: Dropping the SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials and Risk Management

    PP020: Dropping the SBOM: The Software Bill of Materials and Risk Management
    Jun 25 2024
    If you care about nutrition, you check the ingredients of your food. If you care about your IT infrastructure, you check the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) of the tech. At least that’s the future that Thomas Pace hopes for. Right now, SBOMs aren’t super common and software transparency is very low. Thomas walks us... Read more »
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    35 m
  • PP019: The God Accounts: Cloud IAM

    PP019: The God Accounts: Cloud IAM
    Jun 18 2024
    Today we discuss how to secure your all-powerful root accounts on the three major public cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our guests today, Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton from the Day Two Cloud podcast (soon to be Day Two DevOps podcast), describe the struggle of securely managing several root accounts at once. They take... Read more »
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