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The Challenges of Enterprise Monitoring with TLS and PFS

One thing that’s certain today is that network security is a moving target. As attackers become more sophisticated there is a need to adjust the protocols we use and offer better d…

NetSecOps: 5 Reasons to Unify Your Network and Security Operations Teams

For decades network operations and security operations teams have functioned separately. That’s starting to change and with good reason, even though their fundamental goals are dia…

The Elevated Role of IT: Driving Business Forward and Beyond COVID-19

At the end of April, I will celebrate my one year anniversary at Riverbed. I joined the company when Riverbed had already started working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To …

The Do’s and Don’ts of Marketing in a Crisis

In March 2020, I was in London meeting with customers, partners and teammates and upon my return to the Bay Area, organizations were preparing for what was believed to be a brief l…

4 Trends Guiding HR in 2021 and Beyond

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since the onset of the global pandemic. I remember thinking initially that our offices would be shut down for a couple of weeks, may…

Adapting Work Environments for a New Normal

I can’t believe it has been 12 months since the world locked down from the pandemic. A year ago, I was just finishing up a business trip from Europe and was back in my San Francisc…

Troubleshoot Financial Services Applications with AppResponse

The financial services industry has led the way in network security and data encryption, but it also relies on frequent transactions that need to go through no matter what. Trouble…

365 Days of 100% Remote Work

Just over a year ago today, I wrote a note to our employees that we were planning to close our offices for at least two weeks due to COVID-19. While we didn’t know it then, two wee…

Troubleshoot Multi-cloud Applications with AppResponse

For years network visibility has been about looking at traffic flowing through switches and routers on our local and wide area networks. Those of us who were a little ambitious mig…

AppResponse Cloud Supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

With users forced to work from home for nearly a year, and many never returning to the office, it should come as little surprise that infrastructure as a service (IaaS) grew 13.4% …

Cyber Security Threat Hunting Using Network Performance Management Metrics

If you are familiar with Network Performance Management (NPM) metrics, you’ll recognize the following key performance indicators. But did you know that these same KPIs, along with …

Network Admin Nirvana: Fixing Performance Issues Before Users Notice

For many organisations, the status quo involves IT teams troubleshooting and firefighting network and application performance issues after users have called the help desk to compla…