Tech Field Day Coverage
Our delegate panel includes independent writers and thought leaders, and we collect their coverage of the event, Tech Field Day presentations, and sponsoring companies here.
XFD10: Digital Twin Powers Unite to Secure Your Network With Forward Networks
Matt Tyrer writes about Forward Networks digital twin technology, which he learned about at Security Field Day 10. This unique strategy enhances data security by allowing network environments to be audited and secured digitally. The platform creates a fully operational digital copy of a network, enabling risk-free experimentation and validation to identify vulnerabilities and ensure network integrity across various infrastructures, including cloud and multi-cloud. Forward Networks’ digital twin solution emphasizes its capability to improve network security without direct live-environment intervention, providing a safe modeling space for administrators to proactively manage and secure their network landscapes.
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XFD10: Digital Twin Powers Unite to Secure Your Network With Forward Networks
XFD10: Druva Simplifies Data Security and Cyber Resilience With Their Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva’s presentation at Security Field Day 10 showcased the Data Resiliency Cloud’s comprehensive approach to securing workloads across various environments, emphasizing autonomous protection, rapid response, and guaranteed recovery, as discussed in this article by Matt Tyrer. By integrating multiple services into a seamless experience, Druva’s solution was demonstrated to be secure by design, offering a suite of always-on features such as immutability and anomaly detection, enhancing cyber resilience. Highlighting their unique features like Deletion Prevention and Curated Recovery, Druva positioned themselves as a versatile and proactive choice in the ever-important field of data security.
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XFD10: Druva Simplifies Data Security and Cyber Resilience With Their Data Resiliency Cloud
Ventev Introduces VenGo, the Network in a Box, at Mobility Field Day 10
Ventev showcased their capacity to enhance WLAN environments with their flexible and dependable antenna solutions at Mobility Field Day 10, addressing challenges encountered with traditional built-in dipoles. Lee Badman discusses their latest offering, VenGo, an innovative “network-in-a-box” solution aimed at delivering reliable Wi-Fi in temporary, unconventional spaces. During the event, the company also highlighted their advances in Wi-Fi 6E antennas and a new lithium battery strategy for UPS systems, further solidifying their impact on the wireless industry.
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Ventev Introduces VenGo, the Network in a Box, at Mobility Field Day 10
Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 10
Mike Bolitho discusses the Cisco presentation at Mobility Field Day 10, where they highlighted their new cloud-enabled hybrid option for wireless solutions, offering the best of both on-premises and cloud management to large organizations like hospitals. This approach allows for centralized monitoring and troubleshooting while retaining on-prem control, providing a single pane of glass for support teams through the Meraki Dashboard. This integration creates significant value for enterprises with existing DNA licenses, as it enables seamless visibility and management of both Cisco Catalyst and Meraki deployments without additional licensing costs.
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Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 10
Security Field Day With Forward Networks
At Security Field Day 10, Chris Hayner was impressed by Forward Networks and their digital twin technology, which offers comprehensive network visibility and security. The digital twin concept, which is not a new but increasingly essential tool in cybersecurity, is leveraged by Forward Networks to create a highly detailed network model allowing for in-depth analysis and proactive threat mitigation. The platform’s potency lies in its ability to model complex network changes over time, support security compliance efforts, and give IT teams an in-depth look at potential breach points and network vulnerabilities.
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Security Field Day With Forward Networks
Wyebot Presents at MFD10
Troy Martin provides a detailed overview of Wyebot’s performance during its recent Mobility Field Day presentation in this LinkedIn post. Martin highlights Wyebot’s improvements and new features, emphasizing the platform’s aim to become the standard for out-of-band WLAN environment monitoring. He commends its sensor capability, simple pricing model, and vendor-agnostic approach and suggests that its feature of capturing all of its own packet flows for analysis presents an impressive solution to emerging WiFi challenges.
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You Can’t Secure What You Don’t Know About: APIs
In this LinkedIn post, Karen Lopez shares her conversation with NoName Security about the importance of API security. She explains that as APIs serve as the primary way of accessing data in present times, ensuring their security, especially considering technical debt, becomes crucial to avoiding data breaches. She urges organizations to consider solutions such as those offered by NoName Security, which include features to discover, classify, manage, and assess the vulnerabilities of APIs.
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You Can't Secure What You Don't Know About: APIs
Cisco/Meraki Newly Unified Wireless Folks Talk at Mobility Field Day 10
Lee Badman dives into Cisco Networking’s recent discussion of wireless strategy developments at the Tech Field Day Mobility Field Day in San Jose in a new LinkedIn article. Taking note of the unification of Cisco and Meraki products, he shares his concerns as a long-term customer about preserving Meraki’s operationally reliable and bug-free aspect. He appeals to Cisco to leave any customer-facing issues behind as they advance, hoping for success in their transformation process.
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Cisco/Meraki Newly Unified Wireless Folks Talk at Mobility Field Day 10
Finding Security Exposures and Risks From Network Data With Forward Networks
Sulagna Saha describes the blueprint of a successful security program, and explains how the Forward Networks platform can help build it. The platform collects information from far and wide in the network that is rich in security intelligence. If harvested, it can be the key to optimizing organizational security postures. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here at the Tech Field Day website.
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Finding Security Exposures and Risks From Network Data With Forward Networks
Cisco Presents at MFD10
In this LinkedIn article, Troy Martin recounts Cisco’s presentation at the recent Mobility Field Day event. The tech giant showcased its commitment to delivering simplified outcomes for a diverse customer base with its three-pronged solution model: on-prem, cloud-enabled, and cloud-first. Cisco also highlighted the importance of enabling features such as 11r on networks for improved performance, and introduced two new APs, the CW9163E and CW9166D1, affirming its innovative strides in the tech field.
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Wyebot Shows Evolution at Mobility Field Day 10
Lee Badman shares his insights on Wyebot’s improved software following Anil Gupta’s presentation at Mobility Field Day 10. Badman praises the platform for less false-alarms, robust packet-capture capabilities, and an intuitive user interface. The session explored Wyebot’s latest features, including enhancing voice-oriented testing, making the software a beneficial tool for monitoring the health and performance of any Wi-Fi environment.
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Wyebot Shows Evolution at Mobility Field Day 10
Nokia’s New AI Assistant for SR Linux Network Operating System
Sulagna Saha reviews SR Linux GPT, Nokia’s new AI assistant for SR OS. Looking up network information shouldn’t require specialized coding, or browsing through pages of document. It is an inefficient approach, and AI conversational interfaces can replace it. The new SR Linux GPT made from the same technology as ChatGPT helps network engineers find answers to questions quickly and effortlessly. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here on the Tech Field Day website.
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Nokia’s New AI Assistant for SR Linux Network Operating System
Overcoming Cognitive Biases Standing in the Way of Professional Success With AI
In this Ignite Talk article from the Edge Field Day event, Sulagna Saha reviews Jim Czuprynski’s presentation on the use of generative AI to overcome human bias. Czuprynski and his team has designed an AI tool that can predict career paths for IT professionals with 92% accuracy. Read about it at Gestalt IT, or watch the presentations here at the Tech Field Day website.
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Overcoming Cognitive Biases Standing in the Way of Professional Success With AI
Cisco/Meraki Newly Unified Wireless Folks Talk at Mobility Field Day 10
In this LinkedIn article, Lee Badman discusses a recent conversation with the Cisco Meraki team about their newly unified wireless offerings. Emphasizing the nuanced changes and additions such as advanced features and dual 5 GHz functionality, Badman offers the updated Cisco Meraki’s solutions as a strong competitor in the wireless networking market. He appreciates the team’s focus on not just delivering features, but also simplifying complex workflows in the evolving field of wireless networking.
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Cisco/Meraki Newly Unified Wireless Folks Talk at Mobility Field Day 10
Durable Defense and Rapid Restoration With Druva Security
Sulagna Saha reviews the ransomware protection and recovery capabilities of the Druva platform. Increasingly, sophisticated ransomware attacks are hitting organizations. Druva helps companies combat threats with real-time detection and fast response. Read about the solution at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the Tech Field Day website.
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Durable Defense and Rapid Restoration With Druva Security
Security Field Day 10- Forward Networks- Double Trouble for Network Security!
Forward Networks presented their Network Digital Twin technology at Security Field Day, impressing Girard Kavelines. According to Girard, the solution excels in processing and analyzing every possible network scenario, creating a detailed replica of an organization’s entire infrastructure to identify and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities. The post highly recommends viewing Forward Networks’ presentation from the event for its integrative capabilities and efficient threat remediation.
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Security Field Day 10- Forward Networks- Double Trouble for Network Security!
Miscreants in Action: Edge Computing (Or Something)
John Osman recaps his experience as a delegate at Edge Field Day. Despite engaging discussions and presentations from Solidigm, StorMagic, and NodeWeaver, he admits to remaining unclear on the precise definition of Edge Computing, expressing that it may be too vast and varied to reduce to a strict definition. Ultimately, the author settles on the understanding of Edge Computing as an optimization strategy that involves distributed computing, recognizing the breadth of its applications.
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Miscreants in Action: Edge Computing (Or Something)
Self-Service Networking in Multi-Cloud With Prosimo
Sulagna Saha reviews Prosimo’s cloud networking solution that makes multi-cloud networking more like a self-service option. Navigating the ever-evolving challenges of multi-cloud networking is a constant hassle. Prosimo presents full-stack cloud networking that implements a cloud-native blueprint to optimize network operations in multi-cloud. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here on the website.
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Self-Service Networking in Multi-Cloud With Prosimo
Stopping Resource Waste Resulting From Underutilization With WEKA Converged Mode for AWS
Sulagna Saha reviews WEKA Converged Mode for AWS. In large GPU farms, inefficient utilization creates idle silos of resources. WEKA in Converged Mode helps tap into those resources, thus improving cost-efficiency and sustainability of AI use cases. Read the article on Gestalt IT or watch the demo here at the website.
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Stopping Resource Waste Resulting From Underutilization With WEKA Converged Mode for AWS
Reinforcing Agility With Graphiant’s Network Edge Service
In this article, Sulagna Saha reviews Graphiant Network Edge, an as-a-service solution that provides ready-to-consume networks for enterprises. Networking has become more complicated with the rise of edge and AI. Graphiant’s solution seeks to simplify complex networking drills by replacing traditional networks with one that is performant, affordable and secure, and consumable as-a-service.
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