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The Ixia Solutions Group is proud to participate in National Cyber Security Awareness Month again this year, just like we did last year. As technology, our infrastructure and possessions all become increasingly networked, with more and more things from thermostats to rubber ducks joining the…

Advancements in technology are changing the way organizations interact with each other on a national and global scale. The rising threat and evolution of security vulnerabilities have led to enormous shifts in government policies, procedures, and defense strategies. As such, U.S. Federal agencies…

Keeping track of the latest and greatest threats in the wild is one of our main concerns here at the Application and Threat Intelligence Research Center. In that respect, something along the lines of “missing updates” and “site misconfiguration” might not seem to be something new on the threat…

In my previous posts in this series, I laid out my plan to enable Threat Hunting in a scalable way for a cloud environment by integrating Bro IDS with CloudLens, hosted on Kubernetes, with Elasticsearch and Kibana as the user interface. I also gave brief overviews of the key components, how to…

What's a hybrid cloud More and more companies are starting to move to the public cloud or are at least investigating what are the pros and cons of doing it. For start-ups, it's probably easier since they can just start everything fresh in the cloud, but for companies that already have their own on…

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are ever-increasing in scope and severity. While the industry has responded to these threats, DDoS remains a leading cause of business service outage and represents a key financial risk. Companies are struggling to maintain compliance with current…

In my previous posts in this series, I laid out my plan to enable Threat Hunting in a scalable way for a cloud environment by integrating Bro IDS with CloudLens, hosted on Kubernetes, with Elasticsearch and Kibana as the user interface. I also gave brief overviews of the key components, how to…

As I discussed in my last blog post, multicast gaps are a major problem that affect market data feeds and those making trades using the data. Due to the nature of UDP broadcasting (or IP multicasting), the issue is not if a gap will occur in the data sequence, but when. This type of multicasting is…