Network Break
The Network Break podcast keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends & business outcomes. Published weekly.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks
Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase o…
00:24:57 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing?
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups regarding the 7-year-old Cisco bug, risks of AI agents, and Anthropic forcing you to opt out or have your chats saved for five years. Then we highlight …
00:29:30 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack
Take a Network Break! We double-dip on red alerts as the FBI warns that Russian state hackers are targeting a seven-year-old vulnerability on Cisco IOS and IOS-XE devices (a patch has been available …
00:47:16 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
NB539: Boom Times for Arista; SonicWall Offers $200K Firewall Warranty
Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Fortinet’s FortiSIEM. On the news front, SonicWall announces Gen8 firewalls plus a $200,000…
00:31:03 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
NB538: AI Copilot To Help Steer HPE SASE; SoftBank Will Test 5G Airships
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 roll…
00:57:56 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
NB537: Palo Alto Networks IDs New Market With $25 Billion CyberArk Buy; Intel to Shed Networking Biz
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 reque…
00:34:54 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
NB536: Fortinet FortiOS Goes Post-Quantum; Intel Scales Back Global Projects
Take a Network Break! In our Red Alert section we note that memory safety bugs bug Firefox and Thunderbird, and on-prem SharePoint instances are under attack. In tech news, Fortinet adds support for …
00:27:43 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
NB535: Tomahawk Ultra Chops Congestion; Denmark Invests for Quantum Advantages
Take a Network Break! We begin with a listener question about a paper critiquing Shor’s Algorithm and quantum computing, and touch on a remote code execution vulnerability in Riverbed SteelCentral Ne…
00:51:38 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
NB534: Arista Late to SD-WAN Party but Ready to Dance; CoreWeave Acquires GPUs, Gigawatts for $9 Billion
Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on Arista market share in the enterprise, and then sound the alarm about a remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager. On t…
00:50:31 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
NB533: HPE Settles With DoJ to Buy Juniper; Juniper Must Auction Mist Source Code
Take a Network Break! HPE and Juniper have settled with the US Department of Justice, allowing HPE’s $14 billion purchase to move forward. However, as part of the deal, Juniper must grant a full lice…
00:47:05 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
NB532: HPE Deploys AI Agents Into GreenLake; Wi-Fi 7 Drives Q1 Switch Sales
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert is a remote code execution vulnerability in Roundcube. On the news front, HPE announces GreenLake Intelligence, which will bring agentic AI capabilities to the HPE…
00:52:07 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
NB531: Cisco Spotlights AI, Unified Management at CLUS; Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Unveiled
Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert for the week is a remote code execution vulnerability in open-source XDR platform Wazuh. In tech news, we dig into several announcements from Cisco Live US includi…
00:21:42 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
NB530: Broadcom Hits 102.4 Tbps With Tomahawk 6; Wireshark Debuts Certificate Program
Take a Network Break! We start with two critical vulnerabilities: one affecting cloud versions of Cisco ISE, and the other for HPE StoreOnce. In the news, Broadcom announces the Tomahawk 6 ASIC with …
00:23:22 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
NB529: HPE Debuts 8Tbps Switch with Onboard DPUs; NVIDIA Revenues Run Wild
Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tool, which has an unpatched (as of recording time) vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary …
00:43:17 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
NB528: IP Fabric Adds Firewall Rule Simulation; Extreme Networks Debuts Agentic AI in Platform ONE
Take a Network Break! We begin with a Red Alert for critical vulnerabilities Kubernetes Gardener. Up next, a threat actor has been squatting on unused CNAME records to distribute malware and spam, an…
00:27:43 |
Tue 27 May 2025
NB527: AWS Releases AI Agent for VMware Migration; Cisco Bullish On Customer AI Spending
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Tom Hollingsworth steps in for Johna Johnson. We start with Google patching a significant Chrome vulnerability and de-elevating Chrome running with admin rights wh…
00:42:36 |
Mon 19 May 2025
NB526: Cisco Unveils Quantum Networking Prototype; Arista Earns Record Revenues
Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up from a listener on the best way to listen to our podcast that helps the most. The answer? Any listen on any platform helps. Even better is to tell a frie…
00:38:47 |
Mon 12 May 2025
NB525: Cisco, IBM Recruit AI for Threat Response; HPE Air-Gaps Private Clouds
Take a Network Break! This week we catch up on the Airborne vulnerabilities affecting Apple’s AirPlay protocol and SDK, and get an update on active exploits against an SAP NetWeaver vulnerability–a p…
00:31:46 |
Mon 05 May 2025
NB524: Forward Networks Adds Endpoint Discovery; Intel Forecasts Q2 Layoffs
Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert for SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer Metadata Uploader, and then dive into a new endpoint discovery feature from Forward Networks, and Ericsson adding c…
00:24:10 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
NB523: CVE’s Reprieve, Google WAN For Sale, NVIDIA Pledges More US-Made Chips
Take a Network Break! We start with a red alert for the CVE program, which nearly lost government funding before CISA stepped in, and then raise an alert for a Dpanel vulnerability. Google makes its …
00:49:46 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
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