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How can Visibility Reduce SecOps and NetOps Costs?

By: Bakir Malik September 17, 2023

Network operations and security have come a long way to protect the infrastructure and its assets. With layers of security built on top of one another, the traditional method of deploying network security and monitoring creates more challenges, than it fixes. Hosting layers of network security and monitoring systems requires a continuous flow of network traffic to these security and monitoring solutions. Existing methods, whether spanning or mirroring network traffic using ...

The Importance of Network Visibility in Modern Healthcare

By: Zeev Draer April 24, 2023

Following our attendance at the HIMSS23 healthcare summit, it was inevitable to discuss the connection between digital transformation in healthcare and Niagara Networks' visibility solutions. It's a fact that the healthcare industry is rapidly shifting towards digitization, with the rise of electronic health records, telemedicine, and other digital technologies completely transforming healthcare delivery. A report by Grand View Research states that the global healthcare IT market is exp...

Quantum Computing and the Impact on Data Encryption

By: Zeev Draer January 16, 2023

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize many fields, including encryption. In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in using quantum computers to break traditional encryption methods, which could have major implications for the security of sensitive data.

Modern DDoS defenses for National Networks – combining network visibility in Design and Implementation

By: Zeev Draer May 16, 2022

Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to accelerate and evolve into highly sophisticated vectors, threatening any digitally connected entities and services; specifically, the entry of connectivity to the global /local communications networks [which start with the

Empowering data privacy with the right network visibility solution

By: Zeev Draer January 27, 2022

In the digital transformation age, the cybersecurity industry received tremendous spotlight with respect to the pervasive capability of the IT domain to have full access (literally) to any digital asset, regardless of geographical distances and physical barriers. The real paradox exists between how much power IT teams can have to secure and maintain the entire footprint of the digital assets, while still preserving and complying with data privacy regulations. Some will claim that such powerfu...

Resolving the Packet Duplication Challenges

By: André Vink November 16, 2021

Seamless monitoring of network traffic is critically important for enterprise network and security administrators: it lies at the very foundation of network threat detection and remediation. Regrettably, packet duplication has commonly been an undesirable side-effect of network traffic monitoring. Packet duplication produces redundant information in the monitoring tra...

PCI Compliance – What is it, why is it needed and who needs to comply?

By: Stuart Howe February 25, 2021

Payment processing security has, in technology terms a long history. Toward the end of 2004, five major credit card companies (American Express, Discovery Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard, and Visa Inc) collaborated together to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and all organisations dealing with payment processing regardless of size or number of transactions have a contractually obligation to meet this standard. PC...

A brand-new year and cybersecurity defense thoughts

By: Raymond Tan February 11, 2021

It is a brand-new year, and by now you would probably hear from someone that they were busy or sharing about their unique virtual SKO experience.

SecOps Blind sighted!?

By: André Vink November 24, 2020

Privacy, both in the physical and online world, is one of the things most people value dearly. With the inevitable shift from physical locations and facilities offered by financial institutions, retail stores and government to an online environment, secure communications and transactions are becoming indispensable.

L7 Defense and Niagara Networks Close the API Security Gap

By: Niagara Networks July 22, 2020

Written by Zeev Draer VP of Marketing Niagara Networks and Ilan Paretsky CMO L7 Defense If there’s one need more critical than others in today’s delicate cyber security landscape, it’s the critical linkage between the network security and applicative security. Take Niagara Networks and L7 Defense for example (I know - we’re not exactly objective here, but still) – a network and security visibility pioneer and an API security disruptive inn...