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Using the Network to Contain Supply Chain Attacks

These days we’re hearing more and more about ‘supply chain attacks’. That’s when a component of an application has a weakness with the potential to make the entire system or servic…

Detection vs. Protection: Painting a Complete Picture of Your Security Position with Unified NPM

I’ve spent 20 years trying to help people understand IT problems (and solutions) and to dispel confusion. I really enjoy finding new ways to map IT to the physical world and analog…

Customer Experience Lessons from the Akamai Outage

On Saturday, 17 June 2021, a small configuration error by a usually ‘invisible’ cloud service provider had a massive impact on some of the world’s leading businesses. The Reserve B…

Expanding Gig Economy Raises Security Concerns

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed traditional labor models and employment conditions. Many 9-5 office workers, having proved they can be just as productive working from home, expe…

Simple, Secure SSL Certificate Management at Scale

SSL and TLS traffic are among the most common forms of secure network traffic in today’s enterprise. The Riverbed Application Acceleration solution has been ensuring optimal servic…

Riverbed + Microsoft: A Force Multiplier for Public Sector Mission Success

The public sector is built on collaboration. The vast services of the nation would cease to exist if it weren’t for the collective effort between the public and the private sector …

Agentless Monitoring of AWS VPC Traffic with AppResponse Cloud

We are in a time where companies already accept the importance of cloud-driven transformation, but gaining insights across cloud services, applications and infrastructure is still …

Parallels Between the Roman Empire and Zero Trust Network Security

It seems that the term “zero-trust” is emerging as the latest buzzword in network security and cybersecurity communities. To explain it, one can look to the Days of Antiquity, at t…

The Transformative Power of Technology: Understanding the Business and Economic Impact of Digitization

According to the Harvard Business Review, only 23% of companies are non-digital with few, if any products or operations that depend on digital technologies. The vast majority of or…

Securely Optimize SMB Traffic with the Riverbed WinSec Controller

Server Message Block (SMB) traffic is a very common type of network traffic in most organizations, and it’s one of the most common types optimized by Riverbed’s application acceler…

NetIM Simplifies Alert Notifications For Splunk Users

Application performance is significantly influenced by the performance of underlying infrastructure. IT organizations constantly monitor alerts originating from thousands of networ…

The Challenges of Enterprise Monitoring with TLS and PFS

One thing that’s certain today is that network security is a moving target. As attackers become more sophisticated there is a need to adjust the protocols we use and offer better d…