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3 Visibility Tips to Improve your Monitoring and Security Tools
We have been speaking with more and more IT teams looking to stretch their budgets to meet tomorrow’s monitoring and security challenges. Speed and network complexity are outpacing tools they bought as recently as 5 years ago. On top of...
Security in the Wake of Overnight Remote Work From Home Access
In a mad dash to enable a distributed workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IT teams had to make difficult compromises to keep their businesses running. Unfortunately, some of their well-intentioned actions resulted in misconfigurations...
What Is a Packet Analyzer?
Imagine this: one of the applications running on your network is performing poorly, and you have no idea why. You've checked out all the usual suspects and can't find the issue that needs to be repaired. You're going crazy trying to...
Network Packet Brokers Explained
We all know traffic across the data center is increasing. The migration towards 100G ethernet is well underway, with 28% of data centers undergoing the upgrade as of 2018. Meanwhile, 400G ethernet is available and creeping towards...
Managing Your Unmanageable OT and IT Infrastructure
As industrial systems become increasingly connected to IT, Cloud and ERP systems, they become increasingly exposed to cyber threats such as ransomware. In fact, cyber threats for industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise. Asset...
Firewall Primer: Best Practices for Avoiding Downtime
Firewalls are the most recognized security tool for safeguarding your network and are a critical component of any security infrastructure. Firewalls are considered the gatekeeper for most network security architectures, allowing only...