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Why Downtime Prevention Starts with Proactive Monitoring

Downtime has become one of the most expensive and disruptive challenges in IT operations. Whether it’s a service interruption, an application slowdown, or an...

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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 TLS or HTTPS. That’s good...

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Plixer One 19.7 – Unlocking the Next Level of Network Observability

In today’s IT environments, network and security teams face ever-growing challenges in maintaining visibility, efficiency, performance, and security across their infrastructure. Responding swiftly to...

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From Knee Surgery to Packet Capture: What Healthcare Can Teach Us About Network Visibility

It starts with a twinge. Then a limp. By the time our patient reaches the orthopedic surgeon, they’re facing full knee replacement surgery—a journey...

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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: those logs are only telling...

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What is Zero Trust? Principles, Implementation, and Challenges

As traditional perimeter-based defenses prove inadequate against today’s cyber threats, Zero Trust offers a flexible and comprehensive model grounded in the principle of “never...

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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, many carry forward legacy systems,...

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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 to slip past firewalls and...

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Data Exfiltration Explained: Techniques, Risks, and Defenses

Unlike accidental data leaks caused by human error or misconfigured systems, data exfiltration is a deliberate and malicious act. It involves the unauthorized transfer...

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The Benefits of AI for Network Security and Monitoring

We’ve seen more and more organizations leveraging AI for network security and monitoring. The reason? Modern networks are intricate ecosystems of cloud platforms, IoT...