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Jason Lackey 2020.12.04

One of my coworkers, Guang Zhang, who is one of those quiet, smart, thoughtful people (more or less the opposite of your humble narrator), spent a fair amount of time putting together a really cool pi

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Network Visibility + Security

Jason Lackey 2020.11.17

One of the dirty secrets of networking is that there is usually a fair amount of duplicate traffic on a network, particularly when network visibility solutions are in play. This may seem counterintuit

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Network Visibility + Security

Jason Lackey 2020.11.13

What is a packet broker? In short a packet broker is a specialized switch that enables network administrators to supply the traffic needed, and only the traffic needed, to security and analytics tools

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Network Visibility + Security

Jason Lackey 2020.10.23

Tuesday 13 October was a particularly robust and fruitful Patch Tuesday for those running Windows with patches for 87 CVEs spanning a dozen Microsoft products including Exchange, Windows 7, Server 200

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Network Visibility + Security

Jason Lackey 2020.10.08

“It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.” – Muhammad Ali Tolly Labs test results showing the Gigamon GigaVUE-HC3 dropping packets while the Vision X faithfully forwards at line rate. One of my favori

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Network Visibility + Security

Jason Lackey 2020.09.22

In September 2020 the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) was down for several days due a DDoS attack from a group claiming to be from the Russian Fancy Bear cybercrime collective. The good news is that

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Jason Lackey

Data Center Visibility – Go Big or Stay Blind

Cool Packet Broker Tricks - Deduplication

Cool Packet Broker Tips - Load Balancing

Patch Tuesday and the Threat of Blind Spots

Vision X KOs Gigamon GigaVUE-HC3 in Tolly Tests

Verifying DDoS Mitigation