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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

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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 Security

How Plixer One Strengthens Threat Investigation with Network Evidence

When an incident hits, you need to know what happened, how it spread, and which systems were touched. That’s

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Network Operations

Smarter Network Capacity Planning with Flow-Based Analytics

Network teams face a constant balancing act between performance and cost. Underestimate network demand, and users feel the pain

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Update

Ask a Question, Get an Answer: Meet the New AI Assistant in Plixer One 19.7

The 19.7 release of Plixer One introduces the Plixer AI Assistant, a new way to interact with your network

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Network Operations

How Zero Trust Is Changing Network Monitoring

Zero Trust has become the defining model for securing modern enterprise environments. By verifying every user and every connection,

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All New Data Replication

Plixer Replicator 20: Easier, Faster, and More Effective Than Ever When it comes to ensuring that vital network data

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Network Security

No Endpoint Agents Required: How Plixer One Delivers Scalable Visibility

Endpoint agents have long been treated as a necessary trade-off. They offer local insight, but they also add risk:

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Network Operations

Why Flow Replication Is the Cornerstone of Scalable Network Intelligence

When visibility tools start to multiply, so do points of failure. Every new collector means another configuration, another dependency,

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Deep Network Observability

The DNS Clues Your SIEM Can’t See (and How FlowPro Finds Them)

Encryption protects data privacy, but it also hides intent. Every day, more of the world’s network traffic moves under

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