Tom Hollingsworth Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is a 20-year veteran of the networking industry. He spent over a decade as a Senior Network Engineer for an education-focused reseller, specializing in the implementation and operation of advanced technologies. Tom is well versed in the mechanics of campus and data center networks, voice and collaboration systems, and data center virtualization.
Tom has also been a vocal member of the networking community. He is active on Twitter as @NetworkingNerd, and writes on his blog at http://NetworkingNerd.net, as well as being a columnist for Network Computing. He has been a speaker and panel moderator for TechUnplugged and Interop, in addition to serving as the Interop Networking Track Chair and Infrastructure Advisory Board member. Tom has been a regular guest on industry podcasts, including Packet Pushers and Network Collective.
Tom is currently serving as the event lead for Networking, Wireless, and Security on the Tech Field Day event series. He speaks daily with companies on the forefront of exciting new ideas and incredible new solutions and works with industry influencers to help the greater networking community understand how they work and how networking professionals can take advantage of them in everyday practice.
Tom Hollingsworth
The Real Power of Resilience with Dell Technologies
Organizations currently overspend on preventative security by about 78% compared to operational resilience. We have spent decades building taller walls and stronger locks to keep threat actors out of the data center. Ultimately, someone is going to find a way inside. When that happens, a strong firewall does absolutely nothing ... Read More
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Facing Quantum Uncertainty with Fortinet
The security industry loves to talk about the future, but the timeline for quantum computing breaking modern encryption is accelerating. Regulators are shifting their target dates for Q-Day from a comfortable mid-2030s window to a much tighter 2029 or 2030 deadline. For enterprise security teams, this means post-quantum cryptography is ... Read More
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The Reality of Resilience with Commvault
The industry is talking about cyber resilience like it is a new brand of coffee, but it is really the evolution of disaster recovery for a world that is actively trying to destroy your data. We used to care about floods and fires. Now we care about a malicious actor ... Read More
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The Value of Immutability with Object First
IT security teams today must have the feeling of a target on their back. It is not paranoia. Hackers target backup storage in nearly every single ransomware incident because they know that if they kill your safety net, you are likely to pay up. I have seen too many smart ... Read More
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Protecting Your Data with Veeam
The days of using backup as a simple “set it and forget it” insurance policy are officially over. If you’re still treating your secondary storage like a digital attic where you shove old boxes and hope for the best, you are operating on borrowed time. Veeam’s 2026 strategic shift makes ... Read More
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Bridging the Trust Gap with 1Password
We have spent what seems like an eternity of our careers trying to wrangle access issues. We set up our shiny SSO portals, federate the big apps, and feel pretty good. We have a “bubble” of control. But that bubble popped. Reality is a chaotic mess of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sprawl, ... Read More
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Defending DNS with Infoblox and Protective DNS
For too long, we’ve treated DNS as a simple utility. It’s just a phonebook for the internet, right? Treating it that way is a mistake. Nearly every single malicious action, whether it’s a phishing link, a command-and-control (C2) callback, or data exfiltration, starts with a DNS query. It is integral ... Read More
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Your Enterprise LAN Security Is a Problem—Nile Can Fix It
For decades, the Local Area Network (LAN) has been the neglected, insecure backyard of the enterprise. While we’ve poured money and talent into fortifying our data centers and cloud environments, the LAN has remained a tangled mess of implicit trust, complicated IPAM spreadsheets, and security appliances bolted on like afterthoughts ... Read More
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How HPE’s New Security Playbook Is Actually Stopping Threats
For the past few years, the term “AI in cybersecurity” has been mostly marketing fluff. We’ve all sat through vendor presentations promising a magical AI black box that solves everything, only to find it’s just a fancier pattern matching engine. So, when HPE finalized its acquisition of Juniper Networks, there ... Read More
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VCF 9.0 Live Patching Ends Maintenance Window Dread
For IT administrators, two words sure to cause undue stress are “patching cycle.” It’s a necessary process fraught with challenges. Scheduling downtime, coordinating with application owners, and bracing for the unexpected create the kind of headaches that make people want to throw their hands in the air. Historically, securing and ... Read More
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