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Network Break keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends, and business outcomes. Blending sharp commentary with a touch of humor, hosts Drew Conry-Murray & Johna Till Johnson sift through the weekly landslide of press announcements, product launches, financial reports, and marketing decks to find the stories worth talking about. You come away with the information and context to make smart decisions in your organization and career … all in the span of a (longish) coffee break.

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Linux Loads 7.0 with Network Upgrades; NetGear Routes Around FCC Ban, But How?

2026/04/20

Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a trio of vulnerabilities in Cisco ISE. On the news front, Cloudflare announces a private network offering for AI agents and a partnership with CNAPP specialist Wiz for AI visibility. AWS rolls out Interconnect to streamline provisioning of WAN and last-mile connectivity, and Linux 7.0 includes network... Read more »

Project Glasswing's FUD and Thunder; Au Revoir Windows, Bonjour Linux

2026/04/13

Take a Network Break! We commence with a red alert on FastMCP, and then debate whether Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is a marketing stunt or a reasonable response to the growing ability of AI models to find and exploit software vulnerabilities. Iran targets US OT networks, startup Aria Networks unveils Ethernet switches purpose-built for AI factories,... Read more »

Adding Drones to Your DR Plan; Collision Avoidance (Orbital, not Wi-Fi)

2026/04/06

Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Integrated Management Controller. In the news, Verizon settles patent litigation over IoT antenna technology, Cato Networks lets customers purchase individual services within its SASE offering, and Azure adds private application gateways that don’t require a public IP address. Thousands of F5 Big-IP instances... Read more »

Arm Reaches for More AI Revenue with In-House CPU; Debating the FCC Router Ban

2026/03/30

Take a Network Break! Mozilla is our Red Alert topic, with critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird. On the news front, we cover a string of security announcements from Palo Alto Networks, including a new certificate management service to help organizations keep up with shrinking cert lifetimes. Cisco announces new protections for AI agents and... Read more »

CISA Says Harden Endpoint Managers; NVIDIA Launches GPUs for Orbital Workloads

2026/03/23

Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert about a swarm of critical D-Link vulnerabilities. In this week’s news, CISA warns organizations to harden endpoint management systems in the wake of a cyberattack that used the target’s own Microsoft Intune system to wipe thousands of devices, Cisco rolls an NVIDIA ASIC into an N9100... Read more »

Google Spins Out Fiber Business; HPE Networking Revenue Soars in Q1

2026/03/16

Take a Network Break! We begin with listener follow-up on Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities and a report that Nvidia is investing billions to develop open-source AI models. In our Red Alert section we warn of multiple vulnerabilities in Veeam’s backup software for Windows and a couple of Chrome zero-days. We cover new features in Fortinet’s FortiOS... Read more »

New Algorithm Claims Quicker Quantum Decryption; Nvidia Revenue Rockets Higher

2026/03/09

Take a Network Break! Guest commentator Tom Hollingsworth joins Drew for today’s episode. We start with a double Red Alert from Cisco for its Secure FMC software. On the news front, Cato Networks adds adaptive threat prevention to its SASE offering that looks for seemingly innocuous signals that could add up to an attack, Google... Read more »

New Juniper Routers Pump Up AI and Cloud-Scale Traffic; Anthropic Vs. DoD

2026/03/02

Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on the proper pronunciation of the US state of Nevada, and then sound the alarm about new research that gets around WiFi client isolation and could enable man-in-the-middle attacks. On the news front, AMD and Meta strike a massive deal in which AMD will sell its stock... Read more »

Palo Alto Networks Nets Koi for AI Security; Quantum Networking Notches Research Wins

2026/02/23

Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups on secure browsers and data centers in space, and then sound the red alert about an RCE vulnerability in NLTK. On the news front, Palo Alto Networks acquires a startup that monitors endpoints for malicious packages, browser extensions, scripts, and other threats, Lumen debuts a multi-cloud gateway... Read more »

Cisco Challenges Broadcom With 102.4Tb ASIC; Arista Reaches Record Revenues

2026/02/17

Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on data centers in space, and sound the Red Alert about a sandbox failure in Claude Code and a rash of Microsoft zero-days. On the news front, Cisco announces a 102.4Tbps switch ASIC in its Silicon One line of homegrown chips, and adds AI agent monitoring... Read more »

Kubernetes Retires Ingress NGINX; Are Data Centers Headed for Orbit?

2026/02/09

Take a Network Break! We start with a trio of follow-ups, including a correction regarding Mplify certifications, Cisco proposing new OSI layers, and free-space optics. Our Red Alert sounds off about a remote code execution vulnerability in the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile agent. On the news front, Broadcom announces new silicon for wireless APs for... Read more »

Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security

2026/02/02

Take a Network Break! We’ve got Red Alerts for HPE Juniper Session Smart Routers and SolarWinds. In this week’s news, Microsoft debuts its second-generation AI inferencing chip, Mplify rolls out a new Carrier Ethernet certification for supporting AI workloads, and AWS upgrades its network firewall to spot GenAI application traffic and filter Web categories. Google... Read more »

Cisco Builds Nexus Switch for Intel AI Chips; TeraWave Promises 6Tbps from Space

2026/01/26

Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert in Oracle’s WebLogic Server Proxy Plugin for Apache or IIS, which has a severity score of 10. In the news, Fortinet warns that attackers have found a new exploit path against previously-patched vulnerabilities, Microsoft 365 services suffered an outage, and ServiceNow inks a deal with... Read more »

Microsoft Buys Indulgences for Carbon Sins; Starlink Cleared for 7,500 More Satellites

2026/01/19

Take a Network Break! This week we start with follow-up from a perhaps not-so-red Red Alert, and then cover two very-red Red Alerts. On the news front, Ruckus Wireless gets a new parent company, and sources say Extreme Networks may be interested in bringing Ruckus into its fold. AT&T rolls out an IoT management offering,... Read more »

Meta Goes Nuclear; Arista Taps EVPN VXLAN for Massive Mobility Domains

2026/01/12

Take a Network Break! The virtual donut factory is back from hiatus, and we’ve got a fresh batch to pass around as we discuss the week’s tech news. We start with an emergency patch for Cisco ISE, then dig into a set of new product announcements from Arista including a new ability to deploy wireless... Read more »

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4.7 out of 5

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★★★★★

spuluka 2023/09/14

Interesting discussion on current news in enterprise technology

Network Break provides insightful and interesting discussion some of the enterprise technology news every week. This ranges from new products, deploy...

★☆☆☆☆

Javolono 2025/03/19

Ok show

Used to like all packet pusher content, after Greg left not the same. Not the same energy and a lot of sobbing sounding hosts. Leave politics out of t...

★☆☆☆☆

Stryker4526 2024/09/09

Used to be great

Before Greg retired I would listen to every show except the sponsored ones, going on five years now. These days it is more like a contest to see how l...

★★★★★

Cmc5000 2020/05/04

My favorite show of all

This is THE one podcast I look forward to more than any other. Great perspective and info. If there is one single podcast you listen to, make it t...

★★☆☆☆

10339821 2020/08/05

I guess my snark filter needs mor vCPUs

Corey tries too hard to be snarkily clever and funny. It doesn't work for me. I spend too much brain power trying to follow his meandering versus his ...

★★★★★

Austin.Bike 2018/07/22

Great Catch-up of the week in networking

OK, let me start with the disclaimer, I am occasionally a guest on this podcast. But I actually prefer to listen when its not me because they do a gre...

★★★★★

Vinyl snob 2018/04/28

the palace of my comumute

I recently starting consistenly listening to the suite of shows provided by packet pushers everyday for the past 3 weeks during my commute. I even giv...

★★★★★

@broadcaststorm 2018/04/12

Great content, entertaining snark

Fantastic podcast for staying up to date on a variety of networking headlines. Content delivered is relevant, has interesting analysis, and most impor...

★★★★★

rayiron 2018/02/14

So useful and yet so dang fun!

These guys provide a megaton of relevant industry news with a healthy dose of the rueful skepticism that any seasoned network engineer develops. Th...

★★★★★

Rich in Cleveland 2017/05/02

Wow

Much network, so break!

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