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Coming hot off the heels of National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2019 last month, we are now in November and the topic de jour (or sujet du mois) is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month 2019. Back in the good old days, cyber security was more about the electronic world than the…

When deploying an inline network security tool, such as an IPS, it is vital to ensure that traffic continues to flow in all circumstances, even if the inline tool loses power. This ensures that mission-critical business applications remain available to users. A bypass switch is one solution that…

At Ixia we are proud of our long association with Tech Field Day and Network Field Day. We are going to be at Tech Field Day 20 on November 15 where we will feature Phil Trainor giving his unique field perspective on security and how better visibility into what’s happening on the network can help…

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, companies used to run applications on physical servers. With this model, it was not easy to manage hardware resources allocated to an application unless you only ran one application per server, something that was not always practical and definitely was…

Network visibility is an often overlooked but critically important activity for IT. Visibility is what enables you to quickly isolate security threats and resolve performance issues; ultimately ensuring the best possible end-user experience. This is because a proper visibility architecture…

While security threats in general are a consistent concern for IT departments, the specific types of security threats change over time. For instance, according to the WatchGuard Internet Security Report - Q1 2019, “Cyber attackers are now using a wider range of security attacks including: an…

Introduction It is not surprising that vulnerabilities targeting Windows applications and components are on the most-wanted list. A study conducted by Recorded Future rates eight of the top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2018 were Microsoft Office bugs. How is that possible? Well, for…

This blog entry is the second in a series of cloud testing use cases focused on deploying and using a world-class application performance test tool within the larger scope and elasticity of the public cloud. Read Resilient architectures part 1   We’ll start this discussion armed with the previous…