Episodios

  • D2DO279: Herding the Agentic Geese

    D2DO279: Herding the Agentic Geese
    Aug 13 2025
    Developers Rizel Scarlett and Ian Douglas join Ned and Kyler to talk about building an AI agent. Rizel and Ian work at Block, where they’re part of a team building an agent called Goose. They talk about what the agent does, building challenges, observability, and more. They also dive into topics such as how using AI... Read more »
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    41 m
  • PP074: News Roundup – Microsoft Dumps Digital Escorts; Palo Alto Bundles Billions Aboard CyberArk

    PP074: News Roundup – Microsoft Dumps Digital Escorts; Palo Alto Bundles Billions Aboard CyberArk
    Aug 12 2025
    Packet Protector goes global for today’s security news roundup. Microsoft discontinues a program in which engineers in China supported the US Department of Defense’s cloud infrastructure (with the help of US ‘digital escorts’), Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC fires several employees over allegations of attempted theft of sensitive tech, an Arizona woman gets 8 years in prison... Read more »
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    43 m
  • NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships

    NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
    Aug 11 2025
    Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on post-quantum support in firewalls and DPDK, then highlight a command injection vulnerability in Ruckus SmartZone software. In tech news, Broadcom rolls out the Jericho4 ASIC to help scale AI across multiple data centers, InfoBlox beefs up DNS protection to spot malicious domains faster, and HPE announces... Read more »
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    58 m
  • HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?

    HN791: Should You Build or Buy Your Automation Platform?
    Aug 8 2025
    Perhaps the biggest question around adopting network automation is whether you should build a solution using open source tools and a lot of coding glue, or buy a network automation platform from a vendor and construct your automation solution on top of that. Either way has tradeoffs. Network engineer Lee Harper joins Heavy Networking to... Read more »
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    56 m
  • NAN097: Automating Optical Networks

    NAN097: Automating Optical Networks
    Aug 6 2025
    Optical networks are an essential component of networking, but don’t get much attention. Today we shine a spotlight on the intersection of optical networks and the software that automates them. Our guest is Michal Pecek, consultant and teacher in optical communication, whose work has transformed organizations including Google and Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia). From pioneering flexible DWDM... Read more »
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    1 h y 6 m
  • PP073: Identify Yourself: Authentication From SAML to FIDO2

    PP073: Identify Yourself: Authentication From SAML to FIDO2
    Aug 5 2025
    From SAML to OAuth to FIDO2 to passwordless promises, we unpack what’s working—and what’s broken—in the world of identity and authentication. Today on the Packet Protector podcast, we’re joined by the always thoughtful and occasionally provocative Wolf Goerlich, former Duo advisor, and now a practicing CISO in the public sector. We also talk about authorization... Read more »
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    40 m
  • NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz

    NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz
    Aug 4 2025
    Take a Network Break! Guest opinionator Tom Hollingsworth joins Johna Johnson to opine on the latest tech news. On the vulnerability front, several versions of BentoML are open to a server side request forgery. Looking at tech news, Intel will spin out its networking and edge group as it continues cost-cutting, Palo Alto Networks makes... Read more »
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    35 m
  • HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)

    HN790: From Rule-Based to Goal-Based: Rethinking Autonomous AI Operations (Sponsored)
    Aug 1 2025
    On Heavy Networking today, AI operations for networking. That is, how do we delegate some amount of responsibility for network operations to artificial intelligence? Cisco is our sponsor, and our guests are Omar Sultan, Director for Product Management of Automation and AI; and Javier Antich, Chief Mad Scientist for AI (yes, that’s his title!). We talk... Read more »
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    58 m