Application Performance Metrics: Best Practices and Insights
Application performance has a large impact on the efficiency and success of an organization. Users expect fast, seamless, and reliable experiences, and even a...
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI): From Reactive to Proactive Security
As attackers grow more sophisticated and persistent, organizations are shifting from reactive defense to proactive strategy. That’s where cyber threat intelligence (CTI) comes in. ...
Understanding Lateral Movement: How Attackers Navigate Your Infrastructure
Lateral movement refers to the techniques attackers use to move through a network after gaining initial access. Instead of attacking a single machine, they...
Understanding Network Observability: A 2025 Guide for NetOps
A trend of this decade is that we’re being flooded with information and data points. Certainly, an overabundance of data is better than an...
Opportunity Cost and the Inflexible Network
At a former job of mine, there was a tool that most of the company used but nobody liked. It was a database, much...
Three Ways Universities Use Plixer One to Solve Common Network Problems
With thousands of users and connected devices, ensuring network reliability, security, and compliance is a significant challenge for universities. Network observability—the ability to gain...
Why We Hate Direct Exporter-Collector Configurations
Odds are you have a lot of devices on your network that export data somewhere—whether that’s to a traffic analyzer, security tool, some sort...
Understanding MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) and How to Reduce It
Because system downtime can have serious financial and operational consequences, NetOps teams often find it useful to track MTTR (Mean Time to Respond). Although...