Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Catalyst SD-WAN platform. It has rolled out software upgrade and there are no other workarounds. On the news front, NVIDIA assembles other tech bigwigs to form the Open Secure AI Alliance... Read more »

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Network Break

[SPEAKER_A] Take a Network Break! I'm Drew Conry-Murray.

[SPEAKER_B] I'm Jana Johnson. Grab a frosty beverage and we'll hop to it with the technology news of the week. We've got a major cybersecurity patch from Cisco, some industry attempts to enable AI security, some more industry concerns about the cost of mandated Huawei replacement, an acquisition by Enscale, new capabilities from Cato, and quarterly results from Extreme, Arista, and Nokia, as well as Starlink's attempt to bring space networking to Earth. Quite a full show for you today.

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[SPEAKER_A] All right, Johnna, kick us off with the Red Alert. Okay.

[SPEAKER_B] So today is a big— or actually last week was a big SD-WAN patch day for Cisco. There were 2,533 CVEs created in the week ending August 6th and 7,991 updated. Big Numbers getting bigger each week, as you know. Of the new ones, 396 are critical with a CVSS score of higher, and 30 scored 10 out of 10. The Red Alert this week goes to 5 CVEs issued by Cisco for its SD-WAN software with scores that go from 7.7 up to 9.9.

AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

AI Angst Abounds; Arista Revs Up Q2 Revenue

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.