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In honor of Labor Day the boss has given the editorial team a break from our labors. We'll be back on Tuesday scouting for all the latest Cisco news for you. In the meantime, as is our tradition, we leave you with a list of links to help you best celebrate the holiday. Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer. It commemorates the tragic events in 1894 when laborers from the Pullman Company went on strike. Here's the history. Today's U.S. workforce is comprised of 154.4 million people, 16-years and older, according to the Washington Post's Labor Day by the Numbers. The Jerry Lewis telethon for muscular dystrophy will celebrate its 45th year on the air. Many Americans will fire up the grill, so here's a fantastic collection of BBQ recipes (with pictures, videos) from the Weber company. Don't forget to fly your U.S. flag. If the hurricane has you hanging out indoors, the U.S. Open tennis tournament is in full swing. NFL pre-season wraps up. MLB is in full swing. Stores have everything on sale. And please, pack away those summer white shirts, shoes and accessories -- winter white is now required.

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  • Jon Oltsik

    Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

    Feedback on The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace by Jon Oltsik

    Anyone remotely interested in identity management should definitely download a copy of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) document. It can be found at this link: http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/. A a very high level, the strategy calls for the formation of a standards-based interoperable identity ecosystem to establish trusted relationships between users, organizations, devices, and network services. The proposed identity ecosystem is composed of 3 layers: ... 2

  • Author Expert: Network Security Auditing

    VAST: The Unified Communications Security Testing Suite by Chris Jackson

    VAST is a Linux distribution built on Ubuntu that offers a suit of UC security testing tools for penetration testers and security auditors. This article highlights a couple of the most useful tools, UCSniff and VideoJak both of which will become a welcome addition to your testing arsenal. Quick question for you. What is the difference between a criminal and an auditor/pentester? Answer: PERMISSION! For the love of fuzzy bunnies everywhere, please get permission (preferably in writing) before...

  • Jim Duffy

    The Cisco Connection

    Ethernet switch leader Cisco challenged in Layer 4-7 by Jim Duffy

    The Ethernet switch market grew 35% in the second quarter from last year, and 1% from Q1 to $5.2 billion, according to investment firm UBS. Cisco maintained its dominant share of the Layer 2-3 sector with 72%, while Juniper continued to gain - Cisco's rival now has just under 2% share, up from 1.5% in Q1 and 1.3% a year ago. No. 2 though is HP. After closing the 3Com acquisition in April, HP's share is now 10%, up from 6% pre-3Com. Layer 2-3 Ethernet accounts for 96% of the total... 5

  • Jim Duffy

    The Cisco Connection

    Cisco ups ante with Silver Spring by Jim Duffy

    Skype will have to wait. Cisco made its second smart grid metering move this week by acquiring Arch Rock, a maker of wireless mesh infrastructure gear for smart grid metering applications.Cisco said the Arch Rock acquisition complements the partnership it struck up earlier this week with Itron, a metering company with which Cisco will jointly develop product. Arch Rock also ups Cisco's  competitive ante with Silver Sprint Networks in smart grid, according to this post by Greentech Media.... 3

  • Jim Duffy

    The Cisco Connection

    Brocade set to take Cisco, Juniper on in 100G by Jim Duffy

    Brocade is ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in 100G Ethernet. The company later this month will unveil 100G Ethernet routers and modules that it claims will be "industry altering" and its "most significant networking platform development" since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.That will be key, because Brocade has been struggling with Foundry. The company just reported fiscal third quarter results that saw Ethernet/IP sales dip 5% from Q2, while the rest of the industry...

  • Cisco Cert Prep

    The Secret Life of an Analog Voice Port by Kevin Wallace

    In my last post I shared with you my vision of using this blog as a forum to provide Cisco certification resources (in the form of videos and practice questions). The idea is that we’ll focus on one exam a month. For September 2010, our exam is CVOICE.The first CVOICE video is now available for your viewing pleasure. This first video discusses the operation and configuration of analog voice ports. document.write(''); document.write(''); ... 9

  • Jon Oltsik

    Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

    VMware vShield: A Good Start, but. . . by Jon Oltsik

    You've got to hand it to VMware -- it clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of the ESX environment and is focused on improving the platform. Case in point at this week's VMworld when the company announced the VMware vShield family of security products. From the early announcement, it seems that vShield is composed of: * vShield Edge. To enable secure multi-tenancy, vShield Edge virtualizes data center perimeters and offers firewall, VPN, Web load balancer, NAT, and DHCP...

  • Cisco Cert Zone

    What to Consider After Passing CCNA by Wendell Odom

    If you want to work with Cisco, and you want certs, your opening moves are obvious. Although Cisco positions CCENT as its entry-level certification - the "E" even stands for Entry - the prerequisite cert for all the rest of the Cisco cert world is CCNA. However, once you get that CCNA, the choices are wide and varied. Today we'll take a look at some of the things to consider when reaching this point, with related polls. First, let's take a look at the Cisco cert tree in terms of prerequisites.... 3

  • Jim Duffy

    The Cisco Connection

    Cisco bug behind small scale Internet outage by Jim Duffy

    Cisco says it has patched a bug in its routers that was behind the outage affecting 1% of the Internet last week. As colleague Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service reported, an experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources disrupted a small percentage of Internet traffic.The disruption was traced to a vulnerability in Cisco's IOS XR operating system, which runs on its CRS-1 and XR 12000 series routers. IOS XR routers took the experimental... 3

  • Jon Oltsik

    Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets

    RSA Security Extends Compliance to Virtualization by Jon Oltsik

    In between the cloud rhetoric and virtualization hyperbole at this year's VMworld, I'm starting to see a few significant announcements. RSA Security made one of these by introducing virtualization intelligence in its Archer compliance suite. What's the big deal? IT operations needs standard server configurations to meet compliance mandates and auditors need visibility into both physical and virtual servers. Neither group wants to jump through hoops to get what they need. This is a pretty...

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