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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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Random data points coalesce into a single object, representing network observability
Deep Network Observability

Are You Monitoring Your Network or Just Collecting Data? 

Network downtime doesn’t just mean frustrated users, but potentially also lost revenue, compromised security, and damaged reputation. Yet despite

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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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Security Operations

Enterprise Risk Management: A Comprehensive Guide

Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a strategic approach meant to help businesses identify, assess, and respond to these risks

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Security Operations

Understanding Supply Chain Attacks: Methods, Risks, and Defenses

Supply chain attacks have become a greater risk as businesses grow more interconnected. Rather than directly targeting an organization,

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Network Security

Navigating the Rising Tide of Stealth Cyber Threats: A 2024 Perspective

As we navigate through 2024, the cybersecurity landscape is increasingly dominated by stealth and sophistication. The recent CrowdStrike Global

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Deep Network Observability

Enhancing Security with Behavior Analytics   

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) provides the critical insights needed to identify these hidden dangers by monitoring behavioral

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joanna
Security Operations

5 ways of verifying security risks and avoiding false positives

I think I can safely assume that everyone knows the cautionary tale of the boy who cried wolf. If

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joanna
Security Operations

VPN security for a rapidly scaling remote workforce

We’ve all had days when we think to ourselves, “Man, I wish I could just work from home in

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mikel
Configuration

How to set up Scrutinizer single sign-on with Azure AD

Single sign-on (SSO) is a way to secure users while reducing the number of passwords they need to remember.

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stephent
Network Security

Security orchestration advantages with Plixer

If this ever changin’ world in which we live in makes you give in and cry say I’m only

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