Good network engineers are the Swiss Army knife of the IT set: they're well-versed in several different programming languages and procedures, and they're able to fit them all together seamlessly. For ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

You’ve got all the bells and whistles when it comes to network firewalls and your building’s security has a state-of-the-art access system. You’ve invested in the technology. But what about the staff?

Highlights Network engineers are increasingly adopting Python libraries to automate device management, configuration, and monitoring.Tools like Nornir, Netmiko, ...

For today's organizations, network connectivity is essential. Network engineers have a vital role in establishing and maintaining this capability at corporations, hospitals and universities. And when ...

The MACsec, IPsec and SSL/TLS/DTLS protocols are the primary means of securing data in motion (communicated between connected devices). These protocols can be anchored in hardware or implemented in ...

Hot trends such as cloud, edge and remote work, plus new approaches including SASE, SD-WAN and ZTNA, are reshaping network job titles and skills requirements The relatively stable world of enterprise ...