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How Niagara’s Advanced Packet Broker Enables Scalable Security Intelligence In today’s high-bandwidth networks, Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face the challenge of managing and analyzing vast amounts of mirrored traffic - copies of network data used for monitoring and analysis - without overloading tools or breaching compliance boundaries like GDPR or HIPAA. Niagara Networks’

In today's digital age, smartphones, laptops, and desktops have become integral parts of our daily lives, storing personal data, financial details, browsing history, and critical work documents. This extensive information makes our devices a prime and accessible target for cyber attackers, especially those employing advanced spyware and zero-day exploits, two of the most elusive and dangerous threats in modern cybersecurity.

Service providers across the board are grappling with the demand of high-bandwidth, low-latency networks in 5G deployments to support modern smart infrastructures, whose bandwidth requirements are enormous and growing exponentially. Smart city projects have become the new standard that many countries are trying to achieve. Real-time traffic management, IoT-enabled utilities, enhanced mobile broa...

Organizations across nearly all industries are increasingly strengthening their network security posture to gain an advantage in detecting anomalies promptly and responding appropriately. When choosing network threat detection and response solutions, the key question that arises is: “Where should we capture traffic to achieve complete visibility?"

Network security isn’t just about stopping hackers; it’s about ensuring visibility into every packet moving through your digital infrastructure. Many IT teams, specifically NOC teams, default to using SPAN (Switch Port Analyzer) ports because they seem convenient and cost-effective - but convenience can come at a steep price when packets start to drop and security is at risk. Let’s dive into the limitations of SPAN ports, why they fall short, and when to use network TAPs (Test Access Points) ...

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 expected to reach USD 609.1 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 17.9% from 2023 to 2030.

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 ...

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.

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