Todd Cain
Todd has over two decades of experience in Technical Sales and Solutions Consulting. He began his career in the USAF as a Telecommunications Specialist. Since then his focus has been helping customers understand and deploy Network Test, Monitoring, and Visibility Solutions.
OT Segmentation Best Practices For a More Secure Industrial Network
In the age of the Industrial 4.0 Revolution, data is king. It’s the impetus that drives IT/OT convergence in some of our most critical industries. Smart cities like Dallas are merging IP subnet-based VLANs and utility infrastructure to...
Why OT Security Relies on Threat Detection and Response
As the names imply, operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) have different origins. OT exists to manage operations – specifically, physical operations in various sectors of industry that have benefited from automation...
How to Solve Legacy OT Security Challenges
In the course of everyday life, many of the decisions we make about information technology (IT) in a business context are simpler than they may seem at first glance. If we’re buying mobile phones or tablets to help employees stay in touch...
IDS vs IPS Go-to Tools for Modern Security Stacks
As new threats emerge every day, the risks companies face not properly securing network data is growing more widespread and costly than ever. 15% of data breaches involve Healthcare organizations, 10% in the Financial industry and 16% in...
How to Troubleshoot the Network Part 2: Solving Network Forensics Problems
Part 1 in this two-part series on how to troubleshoot the network focused on the most common challenges you’ll face—connectivity, performance, and latency troubleshooting scenarios. And in a perfect world, these would be the most difficult...
How to Troubleshoot the Network Part 1: Common Problems and the Tools to Solve Them
The availability of your network and IT services can make or break business performance. A full-blown outage costs 86% of companies more than $300,000 per hour with 34% saying the costs would exceed $1 million per hour. But it’s not just...