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In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Principal Network Architect, John Li, to discuss one of the hottest IT topics of 2017: security. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Fireside Chat. 

Security is something that most IT folks have a love/ hate relationship with. OK, mostly hate… because data security is not easy and it’s not something you can just do and forget about, instead you must continuously adapt your network security to keep up with evolving threats and mitigate risk.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and we wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to our wonderful customers and partners. We are thankful for all the wonderful people we get to work with every day!

If you don’t have Cisco Umbrella (Formerly OpenDNS) in your environment yet, you should really take a look at it!

I have recently been working with a customer on designing and building out a new Data Center.

THE RECAP Fireside Chat: 2017 SD-WAN Updates with CEO Sean Barr and Senior Solutions Architect Chris Marshall

In January of this year LookingPoint Senior Solutions Architect, Chris Marshall, wrote a blog highlighting a technology we had just started hearing more about, SD-WAN. To recap, SD-WAN is an acronym for Software Defined Wide Area Network, and is a specific application of Software Defined Networking (SDN) that simplifies WAN management and connects enterprise networks. SD-WAN provides aggregation...

My wife and I had a baby recently which has been wonderful…save only for the lack of sleep it has brought us. Sitting up with our son and my wife at night has given me not only insight into the amazing amount of work mom’s do but, also some time to think (and catch up Golden Girls re-runs). It was still dark out, sometime early this morning, while my wife rocked our young son to sleep (again),...

On Monday Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, published a paper disclosing a series of vulnerabilities that affect the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. These vulnerabilities described a set of scenarios where a malicious user can perform a man-in-the-middle replay attack on wireless users connected to the network using...

I was recently called in to assist a customer with identifying the cause of slow performance for an application within their environment. I don’t know about you but I love a good networking who done it, so I could not resist accepting the case. The following blog post documents my experience and findings while working this investigation that will from here on out be known as the “The Case of the...