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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

A padlock silhouetted against a dark background, surrounded by a spray of white particles, representing password spraying detection.
Security Operations

What Password Spraying Looks Like in Raw Network Telemetry

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A man struggles to push a boulder uphill, representing the cost of an inflexible network.
Network Operations

Opportunity Cost and the Inflexible Network 

At a former job of mine, there was a tool that most of the company used but nobody liked.

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Network Operations

Support criteria for SD-WAN vendors

As OEMs continue to invest in WAN optimization, what differentiates vendors’ capabilities so that enterprises seek to scale their

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