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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 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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IoT

Managing IoT Devices: A NetOps and SecOps Security Guide 

The proliferation of IoT devices across enterprise networks has fundamentally changed the security and operational landscape for NetOps and

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Deep Network Observability

From Store to Cloud: Solving the Retail Network Visibility Challenge

The retail landscape has evolved dramatically over the past decade. What once was a straightforward network connecting point-of-sale systems

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IoT

Protecting your network from IoT peer-to-peer vulnerabilities

In a recent article on Dark Reading, it was revealed that millions of IoT devices were exposed to a

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Network Operations

Securing the network from new devices

It’s that time of year again. Employees have gone away from the office to spend time with friends and

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threat surface
IoT

How to reduce your IoT threat surface

Recently, there has been an increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that involve the use of compromised IoT devices

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Security Operations

Detecting IoT_Reaper with Network Traffic Intelligence

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the three major components of information security. Over the years it has become easier

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bobn
IoT

Using NetFlow and Metadata Analysis to Reduce IoT Security Risks

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the wide array of devices (beyond traditional computers and mobile phones) that are

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jarryd
IoT

IoT Security with NetFlow/IPFIX

With billions of devices coming online yearly, the world of IoT (Internet of Things) is upon us. Unfortunately, like

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Security Operations

Cyber Security Questions – Denver Panel

Last week at the Cyber Security Summit in Denver, I participated in a panel that answered questions being asked

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IoT

Protecting our privacy in the Internet of Toys

It turns out, we were right; we just were looking at the wrong toys. In a recent article on

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