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Restaurants Taking Measure to Guard Against Hacks

It’s just another night out with family and friends as you stop and have a bite to eat at your favorite local restaurant. Everything seems normal as the waitress comes over and hands you the bill....

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Ways to Protect Against Phishing

Just like the internet, phishing has evolved more and more over the years. Of the more than 537,000 phishing threats that were reported in the 2017 Global Spear Phishing Report, 91 percent (490,557)...

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Filtering + Aggregation = Never Oversubscribe Again

For network IT managers that send data to monitoring tools, the concern about oversubscribed ports is a continual battle. You can’t always predict your network traffic, and as you probably know -...

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What's the State of SDN?

It feels like there have been two extremes in software-defined networking (SDN) discussions over the last few years. On one side, you have people who focus on the fact that SDN hasn’t lived up to its...

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Historical Lookback - The Proof is in the Packet

"It's the Unicorn we've been looking for!" This was the response I got the other day when I was explaining to a customer the benefits of looking back at packets before and after they pass through an...

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When Did Phishing Become a Social Problem?

In the world of technology, social media is starting to become king. Just think about this for a minute, 15 years ago, there was no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. Now, it seems every...

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