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CVE-2026-45504 Part 1: Why On-Prem Exchange Is an Active Directory Attack Surface
On-prem Exchange has always been a heavily-trusted AD citizen, not a bolt-on app server. This series scopes a real, patched CVE against that history, and against a credential this blog already spent two other series getting a working password for.
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BloodHound Deep Dive Part 1: History, Community Edition, and Where It Sits in an Engagement
Where BloodHound came from, how Community Edition is actually built (Postgres, Neo4j, a single Go binary), and where attack-path analysis fits between recon and exploitation in a real engagement.
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Contrail SD-WAN Deep Dive Part 1: Contrail Service Orchestration and the SRX/NFX CPE Model
Before Session Smart Routing, Juniper's enterprise SD-WAN ran on Contrail Service Orchestration — an SDN/NFV control plane repurposed for site connectivity, provisioning SRX firewalls and NFX universal CPE. This post walks the architecture as it actually shipped.
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Contrail SD-WAN Deep Dive Part 3: Why Contrail Lost the Enterprise, and the Pivot to Session Smart
Closing the Contrail arc: a straight comparison against Viptela, VeloCloud, and CloudGenix, what CSO's architecture cost it competitively, and the specific rationale Juniper gave for retiring it in favour of Session Smart Routing.
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From Contrail to Session Smart: A History of Juniper's SD-WAN Journey
Juniper has shipped two structurally different SD-WAN products under one brand: Contrail Service Orchestration, born out of an SDN/NFV controller, and Session Smart Routing, born out of a 2014 session-border-controller team's bet that tunnels were the wrong abstraction. This is how one became the other.
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Palo Alto Prisma SDWAN Deep Dive Part 1: From CloudGenix to App-Defined SASE
Starting an eight-part deep dive into Palo Alto Prisma SDWAN — the fourth control-plane philosophy this site has covered, after Fortinet, Arista/VeloCloud, and Cisco/Viptela. Part 1 covers the CloudGenix lineage, the 2020 acquisition, and what 'app-defined' actually means before we touch a single ION device.
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A Brief History of SDWAN Controllers: Viptela, VeloCloud, CloudGenix, and Why Cisco Runs Two SDWAN Stacks
Three startups solved SDWAN's control-plane problem within a year of each other. Two got bought by exactly the company you'd expect; one brand didn't survive. The acquisition history of Viptela, VeloCloud, and CloudGenix — and why Cisco still runs two unrelated SDWAN stacks today.