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This is another in a series of blogs on the important concepts of network managment. Today's topic is flow mmonitoring. A network flow is the series of messages exchanged between the opening and closing of a communication session. Flow data is used by tools like network flow analyzers and flow…

Since March 29, 2019, Ixia’s Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) center has been tracking the latest malicious campaign against consumer-grade routers. Today, April 5th, we captured a new wave of attacks that use a different DNS server. The purpose of these attacks is to modify DNS settings…

This week Ixia, a Keysight business, released the results of a survey we conducted in December 2018 on the challenges of cloud management. Research on The State of Cloud Monitoring revealed that less than 20 percent of cloud IT managers have the data they need to monitor clouds properly. The…

If you have been involved in networking over the last several years, then you have heard the term software defined networking (SDN). While adoption has been slow, it is starting to grow. According to an April 2018 study sponsored by Verizon, approximately 15 percent of organizations surveyed have…

Shortly before his sudden but inevitable demise, Ensign Redshirt reported that he detected no obfuscated malware.  Remember the original Star Trek series from the 60’s? One of the interesting concepts introduced there was an adversarial alien race, the Romulans, with their active stealth…

Intelligence is spreading out in organizations--moving closer to the customer, closer to customer-facing employees, and closer to the people managing business operations. Users at the edge are able to access the latest data, run sophisticated applications, and complete critical business tasks. This…

At Ixia, we were delighted to see one of our most exciting new products, AresONE, be recognized by the Lightwave Innovation Reviews. “This is a powerful test solution,” commented the judges at Lightwave, summing up the value proposition of AresONE in a nutshell. The Rise of the Cloud has brought…

The IT role is extremely hard today. Whether you are part of the DevOps or SecOps team makes no difference—threats and problems are a daily, if not hourly, occurrence. What you need is good quality data as fast as you can get it to counter security threats, troubleshoot network outages, and…