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Back on October 6 2016, one of my colleagues at Niagara wrote a post about the five reasons a Network TAP is better than a SPAN port. There is at least one other good reason. To explain it, I’ll start with a quote from a former CTO-tur...

Where did SDN come from? If you were to ask longtime telecom industry experts where Software-Defined Networking (SDN) originated, they might be quick to answer that the concept of controlling networks from a management console has literally been going on for decades in large telecommunication network environments. But that’s not the only valid answer to this question. If you want to know how the actual term SDN, came to be, here is the story.

Monitoring employees in the workplace is a sensitive topic because it touches on employee policies and an individual’s right to privacy, both of which often come with legal implications.

There are still a couple of weeks to go, but in the realm of computing technology, I already know what this year’s biggest impact has been on my personal computing security, cyber security, and my peace of mind.

Are We Already Numb to Cyber Attacks? On Wednesday, December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced that 1 billion user accounts were hacked in 2013 by wha...

I was thinking about where I want to go shopping this year on Black Friday to get the best sales of the season, when I realized, there’s a lot more to this retail madness that I never even thought to consider.

In the spirit of Halloween, people are watching horror movies, trick or treating, dressing up in scary costumes, and it may not be easy to tell who someone is or supposed to be. The same thing goes for Networks - sometimes you don’t know if you’re being attacked or what ghosts may be creeping up on you. Network Engineers and IT Security Professionals are constantly trying to hunt down those ghosts and prevent a disaster from occurring in their networks. So, we wanted to help you...

Background I could go on and on talking about the DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack that happened last Thursday. But, if you work in IT, you probably are already weary from being pulled into meetings, or being tasked to write a carefully worded email or prepare some slides for executive row to address the obvious questions, such as: Did we get hurt?

Over the last decade, Network Management has become an immensely important issue for enterprises to handle due to ever increasing speeds and the complexity of network architectures.