About Mrs. Y

Mrs. Y is a recovering Unix engineer working in network security. Also the host of Healthy Paranoia and official nerd hunter. She likes long walks in hubsites, traveling to security conferences and spending time in the Bat Cave. Sincerely believes that every problem can be solved with a "for" loop. When not blogging or podcasting, can be found using up her 15 minutes in the Twittersphere or Google+ as @MrsYisWhy.

Mrs. Y’s Rules for Security Bloggers

22 May 2013 by Mrs. Y 1 Comment

Recently Greg Ferro published an e-book for bloggers, "Arse First Method of Technical Blogging." It has some great … [Read more...]

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SDN: Savior or Grifter?

21 May 2013 by Mrs. Y 9 Comments

Grift's like anything else, Roy. You don't stand still. You either go up or down. Usually down, sooner or later. Lilly … [Read more...]

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Interop: Firewalls, Booth Babes and Unicorn Poop

12 May 2013 by Mrs. Y 1 Comment

Now that I've returned from the whirlwind that was Interop Las Vegas, I thought I'd share some thoughts about my experience … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 12: The Saga of Terry Childs

2 May 2013 by Mrs. Y 4 Comments

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Announcing the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia from Mrs. Y featuring the case of Terry Childs, the infamous former Network … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 11: Bro – The Outer Limits of IDS

28 March 2013 by Mrs. Y 4 Comments

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Join Mrs. Y, Taylor Banks and esteemed Nerd Captain Ivan Pepelnjak for another exciting episode of Healthy Paranoia! In … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 10: Beware the Shmoo

25 February 2013 by Mrs. Y Leave a Comment

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Darkness falls across the land, The hacker hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of 0-days To terrorize your … [Read more...]

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Night of the Living Zombie Recruiter

10 February 2013 by Mrs. Y 1 Comment

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Everyone in the IT industry has had to deal with the dreaded recruiter at some point in his or her career. You post your … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 9: Live and Let Scada

10 February 2013 by Mrs. Y Leave a Comment

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It's time to be "shaken, not stirred" by the latest episode of Healthy Paranoia! You'll have "the living daylights" scared … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 8: Hacking the Mind

21 January 2013 by Mrs. Y 3 Comments

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Descend into the heart of darkness with Mrs. Y as she explores the topic of social engineering with Chris Hadnagy, noted … [Read more...]

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Security Superstition

20 January 2013 by Mrs. Y 2 Comments

A scientist is never certain. We all know that. We know that all our statements are approximate statements with different … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 7: 802.1X; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

25 December 2012 by Mrs. Y 8 Comments

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Just when you thought the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Christmas couldn't get any better, Healthy Paranoia's Mrs. … [Read more...]

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Ode to a Network Engineer (in the Style of Bukowski)*

29 November 2012 by Mrs. Y 7 Comments

You are not a technical sink. You are not an infant made to passively suck up the pabulum from a vendor. Do your … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 6: Once Upon a Time, There Was Virtualization…

17 November 2012 by Mrs. Y 3 Comments

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Yes boys and girls, today we tell a story of clouds. The Packetpushers attack the subject of virtualization security. You'll … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 5: Next Stop, the Wireless Zone

22 October 2012 by Mrs. Y 2 Comments

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Travel into another dimension - a dimension of wireless networking. That's right, Healthy Paranoia takes on the subject of … [Read more...]

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Healthy Paranoia Show 4:IPv6 Security Smackdown!

1 October 2012 by Mrs. Y 7 Comments

Join Healthy Paranoia for The Matchup of the Century: The IPv6 Security Smackdown! Where builders and breakers wrestle with … [Read more...]

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Who is Greg Ferro?

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Who is Ethan Banks?

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations. Ethan is a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over ten thousand listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is also the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net. Follow @ecbanks.

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