HISTORY By Ed Tittel Back in the early 1980s, standardized networking technology was still years off. During that period, I had to learn and work with AppleTalk, NetBEUI/NetBIOS, DECnet, IBM/SNA, IPX/SPX, OSI and — of course — TCP/IP. At one point, I could give you reasons why one might — or might not — choose […]

tl;dr  Implement this ACL using whatever network gear, cloud ACL config, or uncomplicated firewall you use to protect your networks. Our IOT devices are on 10.99.99.0/24 for this example. Also, […]

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The internet is a product of a global group effort to build an interoperable network connecting billions of devices, regardless of country, region, or manufacturer. That effort yielded hundreds of […]

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Kent Ickler & Jordan Drysdale // Preface We had a sysadmin and security professional “AA” meeting on November 8, 2018. We met and discussed things that seem to be painfully […]

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Ethan Robish // In this series of posts, I’ll discuss how I segmented my home network using VLANs and how I moved away from using a risky consumer-grade router at […]

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