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Beyond the Office: Securing Home Devices and Networks Against Corporate Breaches

SecureWorld News

Let devices go into sleep mode to allow for automatic software updates. Use the administrator account only for maintenance, software installation, or firmware updates. If your internet provider offers IPv6, be sure to implement security precautions tailored for this protocol. Opt for strong, hard-to-crack passwords.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. PRTG is network software that monitors your entire infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and alerts you to problems before users even realize it. IPv6 support. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor.

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Servers/Hardware. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time!

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

The Verge

The Echos with Zigbee on board — the Echo Studio, Echo Show 10, and Echo Plus — have the same radio as the Echo fourth-gen, so they are potentially upgradable to be Thread border routers, says Chris DeCenzo, principal software development engineer at Amazon Lab126. This is because Thread and is built on a Zigbee radio.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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