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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...

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.

Recently, Niagara Networks formally announced its Majestics Partner Program in North America targeting the regional VAR, system integrator, consultant, and MSP. The network visibility market is primed for an alternative solution th...

Caltech has an amazing history of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. For many people Caltech is synonymous with “rocket science.” The institute was the first to discover gravitational waves and the existence of a ninth planet. Caltech discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe, some 30 billion trillion miles away in a quasar. The list is long and ever growing.

The vast majority of the time, packet duplication is seen as a serious problem for network visibility. When duplication occurs on the network traffic, it may indicate a network issue, however, often packet duplication is associated with the deployment of the network visibility layer itself, whereby network tools and appliances receive for processing the same packet from different locations or often the very...

Why SSL Decryption? The growing adoption of protocols to secure Internet traffic, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), is, paradoxically, giving cybercriminals a way to evade network defenses. For example, Gartner Group predicts that, through 2019, more than 80 percent of enterprises' web traffic will be encrypted and that during 2019, more than 50%o...

More and more network traffic is encrypted as people and businesses try to keep their data private and secure as it travels through the Internet. By encrypting transmissions, sensitive information, such as a user's login ID for an online banking session, or perhaps a credit card number, is protected and kept out of the hands of potential hackers and criminal organizations. By 2019,...

Network visibility goals never change—you want to deploy the right combination of network taps, network packet brokers, and

Critical Enabler for Robust Network Visibility Over the last few years, network equipment manufacturers have been in the process of broadly adopting fan-out technology for data center networking to increase port density. In this blog, we will examine how port fan-out technology overall enables higher scalability and flexibility for next-generation data centers and, when specifically applied to Niagara Networks N2 network bypass and