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Why AI Just Broke Cybersecurity’s Oldest Defense 

For forty years, one defense held against nearly every cyberattack: a person who could sense that something felt wrong. AI just took that defense away. It can now produce a fake invoice, a cloned voice, or a deepfaked colleague that no human can reliably tell apart from the real ...

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Representation of lateral movement: attack spreads through a network from a central point
Network Security

How To Detect Lateral Movement: A Step-by-Step Guide 

Lateral movement is detected by spotting small changes in internal network behavior: new host-to-host connections, unusual authentication patterns, and

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Blocks of data in a digital environment. Most of the blocks are clear but one is red, representing AI-powered anomaly detection
NDR

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,

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Cloud network security: a representation of the cloud in a digital space
NetFlow Analyzer

Network Troubleshooting: How To Diagnose Network Outages Faster

By Paul Piccard, CTO & SVP of Engineering at Plixer  Most network outages are diagnosed after the damage is

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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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Magnifying glass on top of a diagram that looks like both a fingerprint and a network, representing end-to-end network troubleshooting
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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A padlock silhouetted against a dark background, surrounded by a spray of white particles, representing password spraying detection.
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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A symbol of a cloud in a network environment, representing cloud network visibility
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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Multiple data streams flow independently, but together form one fabric, representing packet replication
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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