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Network Security

How To Investigate Encrypted Traffic Without Decrypting It 

Most malicious traffic is encrypted, and in real environments, you usually don’t have the keys to inspect it. You can still investigate encrypted traffic effectively by ...

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Network Security

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

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NDR

How Network Anomaly Detection Works (And Why It Matters)

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Network Operations

Before You Upgrade Your Network: How to Prove Whether a Change Will Actually Help

Upgrades are often treated as the safest path forward when performance dips or congestion becomes visible. But for many

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Network Operations

7 NetOps Mistakes in Capacity Planning and How to Fix Them with Flow Intelligence

Capacity planning has a direct impact on cost, performance, and credibility with leadership. Get it right, and the network

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Network Security

The Hidden Costs of Limited Flow Visibility 

Flow visibility may be easy to forever leave on the back burner, but its absence is one of the

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Network Operations

5 Reasons Service Providers Choose Scrutinizer

As a technical support engineer, I have worked with hundreds of customers across the globe. I typically ask them

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Network Operations

How does 95th percentile billing work?

Here at Plixer, we often handle confusion from new customers as to what 95th percentile billing is and how

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Network Operations

Cloud Adoption Drives SD-WAN to Replace Traditional WAN Capacity Planning

Cloud service adoption rates are showing no signs of slowing down. Recently, Gartner wrote that over the course of

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