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While cloud computing is widely used to drive digital transformation, some organizations cannot legally, or do not want to, connect their computing infrastructure to the internet. This is often the case for government agencies and contractors, who must adhere to strict security guidelines and…

The financial industry is experiencing a massive wave of change over the last several years. Digital disruption has been truly disruptive to this industry. This includes cybercrime and operational activities. For instance, according to a joint 2017 Ponemon Institute and Accenture study (Cost of…

In the last two years, PowerShell use in malware has sharply risen. A lot of penetration tools and frameworks such as PowerSploit, Empire, Nishang, PS>Attack offer the ability to generate PowerShell payloads. Empire is an open source PowerShell post-exploitation agent built on cryptographically…

Skype for Business has become a standard for business communications, offering a wide range of really useful collaboration tools such as voice, messaging, conferencing, and distance learning. In my work environment, collaboration is an employee expectation and when it fails, productivity takes a…

In the webinar Best Practices for Network Security Resilience, I explained the concept of network security resilience and how to implement it. However, successful implementation relies upon making the fundamental mind shift to the strategy. One cannot expect to see the benefits if they don’t…

In a recent webinar, Best Practices for Security Resilience, Jon Oltsik (an analyst from ESG Research Group) and I discussed the topic of network security resilience. The basic concept is that it is not a question of “IF” your company network will be breached, but “WHEN”. The real question for you…

Ixia has maintained a lasting presence at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC18 this year). Over the years, we’ve provided Higher Speed Ethernet product demonstrations alongside various partners and we consistently offer traffic generation systems for circuit verification of the conference…

Network management and monitoring is a large topic. It includes device monioring and management, device cluster monitoring and management,network monitoring and management, application monitoring and management, problem resolution, and elements of network security as well. In this blog, I wanted to…