Are You Ready to Respond to an IT Disruption?
Last summer, a routine update at a cybersecurity firm triggered a global IT disruption, impacting customer endpoints and servers across countless enterprise companies on every continent. This week,...
View ArticleThe Next Phase of Attacks and the Blind Spots We Must Address
On October 15, 2025, a major network infrastructure provider disclosed a sophisticated cybersecurity incident in which a nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, unauthorized access to internal...
View ArticleNETSCOUT Wins “Overall Network Security Solution of the Year”
When it comes to cybersecurity, visibility is everything. Without it, even the most advanced tools can’t help teams detect, investigate, or respond effectively to threats lurking in their networks....
View ArticleCable/MSO Operators Rise Above the Data Deluge
"In God we trust; all others must bring data." Although the phrase is widely attributed to W. Edwards Deming, the father of the post-WWII quality movement, the sentiment applies today in that it...
View ArticleWhat Are Zero-Day Attacks, and Why Do They Work?
Zero-day attacks have become a significant concern in the realm of cybersecurity, posing a formidable challenge to individuals and organizations alike. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities that are...
View ArticleInnovation, Visibility, and the Future of Cable: Highlights from SCTE TechExpo25
SCTE TechExpo25 brought together the brightest minds in broadband and telecommunications to explore the future of connectivity. From artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation to next-gen network...
View ArticleWhy Network Visibility Is the Thread That Holds Cybersecurity Together
Every organization is chasing the same thing in security: speed, clarity, and confidence. But in reality, most are bogged down by complexity, siloed tools, and an overwhelming flood of alerts. The...
View ArticleHow Can Enterprises Navigate the Network Observability Landscape?
Transformation rarely comes without friction. Your organization has pursued a strategy of digital transformations in the last decade that has brought innovation, automation, and competitive...
View ArticleWhy SOC Efficiency Is the Most Valuable Currency in Cybersecurity
In cybersecurity, time is scarce, talent is scarce, and certainty is scarce. That’s why efficiency has quietly become the most valuable currency inside the security operations center (SOC). Enterprise...
View ArticleBenefits of Hybrid DDoS Protection
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape is continuously evolving, with threat actors employing new attack vectors, approaches, and dynamically changing attacks to evade defenses....
View ArticleHow Shadow IT Leaves Every Industry in the Dark
Shadow IT is everywhere. What began with employees or departments bringing familiar tools such as personal email or file-sharing apps into the workplace has grown into unauthorized...
View ArticleFrom Detection to Response: Why Confidence Is the Real Game Changer
Cybersecurity often feels like a race where you don’t know when the starting gun will fire. The moment a threat slips past the perimeter, the countdown begins. Every minute between “we detected...
View ArticleIntern Spotlight: Riding the Connected World
Five months ago, during a family road trip, I grew frustrated when my favorite mobile game, Clash Royale, kept lagging. “This shouldn’t be happening,” I thought. “I want to play now and expect to...
View ArticleHeavy Reading Analyst Note: Moving Beyond Basic Automation with AI-Powered RAN
Ruth Brown, principal analyst for the Wireless Networks group at Heavy Reading (part of Omdia), recently published an analyst note titled “AI-Powered RAN: Moving Beyond Basic Automation.” In this...
View ArticleThe First Line of Defense Is Still the Network. But That’s Only the Beginning
For years, the security industry has been captivated by the promises of new acronyms: EDR, XDR, CDR. Each wave has promised broader coverage, better detection, and faster responses. And although each...
View ArticleHow to Break Away from Legacy Troubleshooting and Accelerate MTTR
A couple of our recent blogs have shared findings from a survey administered at Cisco Live 2025 with 319 IT professionals participating. The first was about the top troubleshooting surprises we...
View ArticleConnectivity in Crisis: How CSPs Power Natural Disaster Recovery
Research shows that natural disasters are increasing— of the 10 years with the most natural disasters, 9 were in the last decade. From 1980 to 2024, the U.S. averaged 9 events per year, while the...
View ArticleDigital Aftershocks: Collateral Damage from DDoS Attacks
The NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report presents a succinct and research-driven analysis of the dynamic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and defense landscape. Intended to swiftly...
View Article25 Years of Arbor (Networks) Innovation & DDoS Protection
In 2000, backed by DARPA, Cisco, and Intel, and based on research from a professor (Farnam Jahanian) and one of his graduate students (G. Robert Malan) from the University of Michigan, Arbor Networks...
View Article2026 World Cup: Endurance test for the next era of mobile networks
The massive scale of the tournament, which includes 16 stadiums and 104 matches, will push the power of mobile networks to the limit. Global sporting events have always driven innovation in the mobile...
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