IOS Errors – Wood, Trees etc.
Today I’m sharing a “duh” moment that I think needs to be recorded partly for comedy value and, perhaps, partly to save somebody else the same fate. It’s one of those “it’s right in front […]
2012
Spirent iTest Lab Optimizer
Spirent’s presentation at Networking Field Day 4 covered three main products: Spirent Studio Security, Spirent iTest Lab Optimizer and Spirent Axon. In this post, I’ll take a look at iTest Lab Optimizer – Spirent’s new […]
The Five Stages of Network Hacks
I’m stating the obvious here perhaps, but every time a temporary solution to a network problem is proposed, I feel morally obliged to laugh and say “And by ‘Temporary’, you mean ‘Permanent’.” This usually leads […]
Get Fuzzy – Hunting for Zero Days with Spirent
Even for those of us who are not hackers by trade, I strongly suspect that as geeks we’ve all at some point played around with a web form or a URL string and thought “Hey, […]
Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
Back in February 2012, Juniper announced that they were acquiring Mykonos, a Web Security vendor, and quite honestly my reaction was “uh, ok then”. I’d never heard of them, and figured I never would again […]
Statseeker – Keeping An Eye on the Little Things
As part of Networking Field Day 4, Statseeker presented to the delegates on their network performance monitoring software. Statseeker is a product has an interesting three pronged proposition: Poll all ports all the way to […]