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How Network Anomaly Detection Works (And Why It Matters)

By Paul Piccard, CTO & SVP of Engineering at Plixer Network anomaly detection identifies deviations from normal network behavior, such as unusual traffic patterns, new connections, or unexpected data transfers. It works by establishing a baseline of normal activity and ...

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Network Troubleshooting: How To Diagnose Network Outages Faster

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

How to Reduce False Positives with Shared Context

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Why Most Performance Investigations Start in the Wrong Place

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What Password Spraying Looks Like in Raw Network Telemetry

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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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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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Security Operations

Why Flow Data Belongs in Your Incident Response Playbook

When an incident kicks off, the early picture is usually fragmented. Logs and endpoint alerts hint at symptoms and

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Network Operations

Replacing Five Dashboards With One Path View

Most teams don’t set out to build a five-dashboard workflow. Maybe you start with a network view, but it

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