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In three decades we went from shared 10 Mb hubs and beige pizza-box routers to leaf-spine fabrics pushing 400 GbE (and beyond), software-defined overlays, and AI-optimized data centers with liquid cooling and smart NICs. The big shifts: switches replaced hubs, virtualization and cloud changed traffic patterns, leaf-spine killed big L2 domains, EVPN-VXLAN became the standard overlay, copper gave...

In today’s connected world, protecting your business means more than simply having a firewall in place. Threats evolve by the minute, and every misconfiguration or missed update creates potential risk. A Managed Firewall is the smarter way to keep your defenses strong; combining advanced technology with continuous oversight from security experts. At LookingPoint, we built our Managed Firewall...

Wifi-7 (802.11be) was ratified last year and we have now started seeing vendors shipping APs based on these new standards. In this post lets discuss what is new with Wifi-7 and compare it to how it its an improvement over Wifi-6e.

Managing large numbers of devices in Microsoft Entra ID is easier when you organize them into groups. These groups can be used for applying policies, deploying apps, and managing access through Intune or other Microsoft services.

Ah, OAuth 2.0. The protocol that promised to end password reuse and save us from the deep, dark, insecure corners of the web. The one we thought would be the antidote to phishing. But guess what?

With Windows 10 reaching End of Life on October 14, 2025, now is the time to start planning your upgrade path to Windows 11! Whether you're testing on a single device or rolling it out company-wide, Microsoft Intune gives you a streamlined, hands-off way to manage the entire process.

I've been doing a fair amount of wireless surveys lately, and part of the survey process includes generating the report that I present to the customer. These reports come with a series of heatmaps that aren't always self explanatory. This often leads to a discussion with the customer where i provide additional interpretation of the heatmap. In this post lets talk about the different heatmaps you...

Last year I wrote a blog about going passwordless (you can check it out here: https://www.lookingpoint.com/blog/passwordless). Now I’m doubling down and telling you that passwords are outdated. They’re reused, guessed, phished, and stolen. Despite password managers and multi-factor authentication (MFA), the underlying security model of passwords is inherently weak.