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Upgrade Cabling without Blowing the Budget
It never fails. You’re in a hurry, running late. You’re driving too fast when, suddenly, a speed bump. What was designed for safety has now created fury, as your not-so-decaf coffee instantly repaints the car’s interior an unflattering...
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...
ICS Village Series: Aggregating Distributed Industrial Networks
As ICS/OT environments get upgraded and modernized, challenges surface on deploying asset inventory and threat detection solutions within a distributed network. These include monitoring a network covering a significant geographic location...
Preventing Packet Loss for Optimal Network Performance
Downtime is an expense that few businesses can afford in the age of hybrid work and digital transformation. According to Datto, an hour of downtime costs $8,000 for a small company, $74,000 for a medium company, and $700,000 for a large...
Prevent Cybersecurity Blind Spots by Improving Network Visibility
Cybersecurity and network visibility go hand in hand. Without a holistic, complete view of every packet that travels in and out of your company, even the best, most advanced security tools will fail to provide adequate protection....
ICS Village Series: Overcoming Legacy Equipment Challenges
Traditionally, operational technology (OT) networks were architected almost entirely separate from information technology (IT) networks. As digital transformation efforts within organizations began to include the OT network infrastructure,...