Tim O'Neill
As the Senior Technology Consultant & Chief Editor at LoveMyTool, Tim O’Neill has over 45 years of technology experience at data/voice and video networking analysis companies, including successful senior roles in Sales, Product Design, Marketing Management, Business Development and Security.
Wireshark – From Ethereal to Today
The story about Wireshark is entwined with the story of Gerald Combs, the inventor, founder and heart behind Wireshark. It was always Gerald’s dream to build an open source, world class network analyzer, which is now the number one...
How Much is My Information Worth on the Dark Web?
In the April 5, 2016 report by the Identity Threat Resourse Center (ITRC) there have been 227 breaches which have compromised 6,214,514 records containing personally identifiable information (PII). The ITRC tracks data breaches involving...
SCADA/ICS – Are We Scared Yet?
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), or industrial control systems (ICS), have been monitoring and controlling our industrial, power and refinery world since the 1960s. Simply put, SCADA is the least protected and...
Data at Risk Series: Healthcare Cyber Security - is Now Life or Death
In our first Data at Risk post about healthcare, we discussed the current state of security in the industry. After highlighting the key vulnerabilities for healthcare providers—the move to digital patient records, aging electronic medical...
Making the Switch: Serial Bus to Ethernet
There’s a lot of talk these days about Industrial Ethernet. What it is and what it is not. Part of the misunderstanding is that the standards are very simple, yet stringent. The simple part of Industrial Ethernet is once you determine your...
Fractal Networks Require a Focused and Flexible Foundation
Focused and flexible are sometimes opposites but these are required in today’s higher, almost quantum network speeds. Is 100G the end? Absolutely not. Are Fractal Networks possible?