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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 traffic shows up in the firewall logs. Around the same time, ...

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Network Operations

Why Most Performance Investigations Start in the Wrong Place

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Security Operations

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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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 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

10 Real-World Flow Use Cases That Make Life Easier for NetOps 

Network operations teams face an endless stream of challenges: mysterious performance issues, unexpected bandwidth spikes, compliance audits, and the

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Network Security

What Your Firewall Doesn’t Tell You

Your firewall is dutifully logging every connection attempt, blocking malicious traffic, and generating alerts. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

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Network Security

The Growing Risk of Security Debt

Security debt is emerging as a critical concern for IT and security teams. As businesses rapidly adopt new technologies,

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Security Operations

How User Behavior Analytics (UBA) Fits Into the Security Stack

There are many ways for attackers to move quietly through the network, using stolen credentials and subtle behavioral shifts

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Network Security

What Are Indicators of Compromise? A 2025 Guide for Cybersecurity Teams

For security teams, early detection is the difference between a minor incident and a full-scale breach. That’s where Indicators

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Network Security

Insider Threat Detection: How to Identify and Mitigate Internal Cyber Risks

Insider threat detection has become one of the most critical aspects of modern cybersecurity. Unlike external attacks, which originate from

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