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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 Security

The Most Overlooked Ingredient in Successful Tool Consolidation

Tool consolidation is gaining momentum as organizations look for ways to reduce overhead, eliminate redundancy, and simplify their operations.

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A man stands before a large wall of many screens, representing the driving force behind tool consolidation
Network Security

Why Tool Consolidation is Back on IT Leaders’ Agendas

Every December, renewal schedules pile up, contract reviews demand attention, and leaders are asked to justify tools purchased years

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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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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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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 Security

Top 5 Reasons to Use UDP Replication 

In any organization, the network is both the backbone of operations and the first witness to incidents. Every service

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Network Operations

These Common Product Flaws in Monitoring Solutions Still Frustrate Us

Network monitoring tools are supposed to be the eyes and ears of your IT infrastructure, providing the visibility needed

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Network Operations

How to improve response time for life-critical network events with Plixer Scrutinizer

The healthcare industry has been on red alert for more than a year now. Workloads have doubled and the

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jake
Network Operations

I installed Scrutinizer 100 times and here’s what I learned

As a Presales Engineer, I spend a good portion of my time helping with Scrutinizer installs and helping troubleshoot

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Monitoring QoS for application troubleshooting

Network and security teams collect flow and metadata to provide an accurate account of applications traversing the network. Another

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