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Introduction: The Cloud's Visibility Problem As businesses rapidly migrate to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, they are creating powerful new capabilities but also significant operational blind spots. The traditional tools used for network monitoring, like SPAN ports and physical packet brokers, were simply not designed for the dynamic, distributed, and complex nature of modern cloud networks. These legacy methods struggle to access and make sense of the traff...

- Co-authored by André Vink and Vitaliy Ivanov - Mobile providers are transitioning from physical perimeter infrastructure to cloud-based infrastructure to gain greater scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. This shift enables them to swiftly adapt to growing mobile data demands, rapidly deploy innovative services, and efficiently manage network resources. Cloud infrastructure also of...

Challenges of Encrypted Traffic Visibility and Threat Detection Encryption has fundamentally changed the way traffic visibility works. Nearly all modern network communication - web, cloud, SaaS, internal services - is encrypted by default. While that’s great for user privacy, it complicates lawful intercept workflows. Getting access to the right traffic, extracting meaningful data, and staying within legal and privacy boun...

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’

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?"

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.