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Shadow IT Is a Bug ReportShadow IT Is a Bug Report

October 21, 2026October 21, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:30 am

Controls, Controls, Controls — Everyone Gets a Control! Somewhere in your enterprise is a threat no security control can contain:...

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Cotton… and Rockets? – National Cyber Summit 2026Cotton… and Rockets? – National Cyber Summit 2026

September 25, 2026September 25, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:30 am

Cybersecurity conferences aren't just for Vegas. Here are my takeaways from the National Cyber Summit in Huntsville, Alabama: quantum computing's...

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HopMatrix – Network DiscoveryHopMatrix – Network Discovery

September 24, 2026September 24, 2026| 2 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 8:45 am

SNMP discovery and walks, CDP/LLDP decoding, built-in Nmap, and remote Cisco packet captures: a look at HopMatrix's network discovery toolkit....

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Review and a Rant on the Eufy S4 NVRReview and a Rant on the Eufy S4 NVR

September 22, 2026September 22, 2026| 0 Comments| Ben StoryBen Story| 10:00 am

My Eufy S4 NVR and its PoE cameras went in without a hitch. My wireless floodlight camera did not. After...

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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  1. Ben Story on HopMatrix – Network DiscoveryOctober 20, 2026

    It will show visually the last hop that was responding. Kick the tires and give us feedback.

  2. Chris Lang on HopMatrix – Network DiscoveryOctober 11, 2026

    Network discovery write-ups only help when they name the hop path that actually failed. Curious which segment HopMatrix flagged first…

  3. HopMatrix - Network Discovery - PackIT Forwarding on HopMatrix – Is It Up?September 24, 2026

    […] Earlier in this series, we explored the core discovery module in HopMatrix through ping scanning. Now we’ll dive a…

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