[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 5 min read
Fear and Logging in Las Vegas
I'm headed to Tech Field Day Extra at AWS re:Invent to hear what AWS has to say about security, how it compares with Azure, and where the rest of the industry is going.
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[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 6 min read
Commvault at TFDx RSAC 2026: Clean Recovery Is a Different Problem Than Fast Recovery
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson One organization Chris Bevil worked with had a genuinely good disaster recovery program. Tabletop exercises, tested runbooks, the whole thing. When …
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 7 min read
Object First at TFDx RSAC 2026: If You Can Turn It Off, It Wasn't Immutable
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” — Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass (1871) I’ve lost count of how many storage conversations I’ve sat through where immutability …
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 6 min read
Veeam at TFDx RSAC 2026: Three Generations of Resilience (And You Need to Prepare for All of Them)
Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated …
[ Security ] [ Tech field day ] 4 min read
Security Audits
If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and …
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 5 min read
Zerto
I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding. Many companies have product offerings in the security space, focusing exclusively on the data integrity and …
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 3 min read
Security Field Day 2024
In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time. Overseeing an IT organization requires you to think …
[ Networking ] [ Security ] 6 min read
ASA Upgrade to 9.0(2)
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra Usually, no matter how much planning, testing, thinking about, or stalling you build in to an upgrade project, the bill …
[ Networking ] [ Security ] 5 min read
Policy-based VPN between Juniper SRX and Cisco ASA
One of the things that I am called upon to do fairly often in my current role is to configure remote access VPN devices for some site or another. Often these sites are transient in nature, only staying active for weeks …
802.1x for Wired Networks (Part 2)
One of the nice things about working with Cisco equipment, as opposed to many other brands, is that you truly do get a smorgasbord of features and capabilities. On the flip side of that coin, however, the bad thing about …