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Your Team Already Has the AI. Now It Can See the Network. 

Today we are launching Plixer 19.8. If you spend your day in a NOC or a SOC, you have noticed the same thing we have: your team has standardized on an AI tool it trusts, and ...

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Cisco Live 2026: The Agentic Era Is Here and Your Network Is Already Behind

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How to Monitor and Investigate AI Agent Network Traffic 

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An alert touches multiple segments of the network, representing the challenge to reduce false positives
Deep Network Observability

How to Reduce False Positives with Shared Context

False positives are rarely caused by too many alerts, but by missing context. Let’s say a spike in outbound

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Network Operations

Why Most Performance Investigations Start in the Wrong Place

When users report that “the network is slow,” most investigations begin where frustration is loudest. That may be, for

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Security Operations

What Password Spraying Looks Like in Raw Network Telemetry

Password spraying is usually described in terms of failed logins and account lockouts. But before a SIEM rule fires

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Network Security

Why Cloud Problems Still Show Up in Network Data

Simplicity was the promise of cloud migration. You could tuck underlying infrastructure behind service APIs and provider consoles. Applications

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Network Operations

Five Questions to Ask Before Escalating a Network Issue

When performance drops or users report that “the network is slow,” escalation often feels like the safest move. But

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Network Operations

When One Packet Stream Needs to Feed Five Tools

In most environments today, one packet stream rarely serves a single purpose. Let’s say a SPAN or ERSPAN session

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Security Operations

How Flow Data Supports Threat Hunting Without Drowning Analysts

Threat hunting should feel deliberate. You should be able to follow a path, validate a suspicion, and document what

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Deep Network Observability

Proving Nothing Changed: The Most Overlooked Troubleshooting Skill

When something breaks, teams instinctively look for what changed. Maybe a new deployment or a firewall rule pushed late

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Network Security

What Changed After the Firewall Update? Let the Traffic Answer

Firewall updates rarely fail in obvious ways. Everything looks like it’s going smoothly, but then a day or two

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Many nodes on a network, representing the scaling challenges that flow-first visibility helps overcome
Network Operations

Scaling Visibility Across Sites Without Deploying Probes Everywhere

As networks grow, visibility often scales the wrong way. New branch offices, cloud regions, and remote environments bring new

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