Go to Barcelona. Learn stuff. Come back with a clear conscience.

First off I’ll say this: Kudos to you if you’ve managed to convince your boss that you need to go to Barcelona for the upcoming OpenStack Summit. You’re a better negotiator than I. I’ve gone to the past four consecutive Summits, but this one does not look like it’s going to happen. And honestly I […]

Lift and Shift Is Necessary but Not Sufficient

Originally published in the book: Gray, Ken & Nadeau, Thomas. Network Function Virtualization, 1st Edition. (2016). Morgan Kaufman, also available here. This book by Ken and Tom on NFV is perhaps the first time they’ve laid out both a fantastic review of the vast landscape of technologies related to virtualized networking and woven in a subtle […]

The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON Exploits

UPDATE April 20, 2017 Cisco continues to evaluate potential implications of the activities and information posted publicly by the Shadow Brokers Group.  We launched an investigation to analyze the new files posted on April 14th, 2017, and so far have not found any new vulnerabilities or exploits that affect Cisco products and services. Cisco PSIRT will […]

MITM Training at Black Hat USA 2016

To prevent a security breach and loss of critical business data, security teams must be diligent in defining, identifying, and classifying security gaps in their organization’s network. Many security teams conduct pentesting as a way to assess and mitigate any potential gaps.  As a consulting engineer for Cisco Security Services, I’ve observed a deeper understanding […]

A “quick” guide to QUIC

Intelligence Gathering 101 Traffic analysis is rapidly becoming critical for threat analysis and incident response teams, and a choke point on their capability to be effective. Performing analysis on incoming threats requires security professionals to have monitoring tools that can give them an understanding of the information coming and going into their environment. This understanding […]

Service Providers, There’s Never Been a Better Time

I have been privileged throughout my career to work with and for service providers. And these days, it’s particularly exciting to be a service provider.   Nearly every aspect of our lives is being impacted by the explosion of IP devices, apps and services. We believe this creates a $2 trillion opportunity for service providers over […]