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    Leveraging Advanced Packet Brokers and NDR for Encrypted Traffic Visibility and Threat Detection

    By: Zeev Draer September 09, 2025

    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...

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    Quantum Computing and the Impact on Data Encryption

    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.

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    Empowering data privacy with the right network visibility solution

    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...

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    SecOps Blind sighted!?

    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.

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    SPAN and Port Mirroring

    SPAN and Port Mirroring

    By: Yigal Amram November 15, 2018

    Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) is another way of saying “port mirror”. What’s helpful about the term “SPAN” – if you know the acronyms’ description – is that you are then aware that it is related to providing visibility of switch data traffic to other tools.

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    Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems | Niagara Networks

    Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems | Niagara Networks

    By: Yigal Amram October 29, 2018

    What Network IDS/IPS Can Do For You IDS and IPS function together as network intrusion detection and prevention systems – generally called IPS or IDPS. The IDS (intrusion detection system) is limited in functionality, because its sole role is to detect. When it detects a potential intrusion, all it is designed to do is to alert an IT administrator or IT security personnel of the potential threat or breach, and they will then take it from there and trigger a protocol...

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    Secure Full Visibility for Large Multi-Site Networks | Niagara Networks

    Secure Full Visibility for Large Multi-Site Networks | Niagara Networks

    By: Yigal Amram April 10, 2018

    Whether we're talking about enterprises, telecommunication companies or Multi-System Operators (MSOs), network and security engineers need to deal with the increasing demands of their growing networks.

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    SSL Decryption: Active Vs Passive

    SSL Decryption: Active Vs Passive

    By: Yigal Amram February 28, 2018

    As a network security specialist, there’s no doubt that one of the network security tools you make use of is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). However, SSL isn’t only used by security specialists to protect highly confidential data.

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