Network Break 315: Pluralsight Sold For $3.5 Billion; Dent NOS Hitchhikes To The Edge

Network Break returns after a holiday rest to wish you a Happy New Year and resume our weekly analysis the IT industry. We start with a review of the massive SolarWinds exploit, a Slack meltdown on the first day back at work after New Year’s, and the purchase of Pluralsight for $3.5 billion by a private equity company. ICANN says all 1,195 generic top level domain name servers have implemented DNSSEC, the Linux Foundation debuts the Arthur code release of the Dent network OS, and an analyst firm says Juniper will lose revenue as AWS rolls out its own routers. F5 Networks acquires startup Volterra for its API gateway/load balancing service and VMware sues its former COO over an alleged employment contract violation. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Join Palo Alto Networks on January 14th, 10am PST for their “Securing Today’s Work-From-Anywhere World” webinar and learn about trends are shaping remote work in the short and long term, rethinking infrastructure to ensure corporate resources are secure and available 24/7, and transforming networking and security to align with the needs of remote workforces with Prisma® Access Register at https://register.paloaltonetworks.com/securingworkfromanywhere. Tech Bytes: SimonMed Stay tuned after the news for a Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Silver Peak. We discuss an SD-WAN deployment with their customer SimonMed, a medical imaging company dealing with massive data files and sensitive patient records. Show Links: CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Mitigate the Compromise of Solarwinds Orion Network Management Products – CISA IT company SolarWinds says it may have been hit in ‘highly sophisticated’ hack – Reuters Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor – FireEye U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise – Krebs on Security Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers – Microsoft Slack outage: latest details and potential long-term implications – GeekWire