Tag: network traffic

July 9, 2024

The ability to effectively analyze network traffic is a must for a successful enterprise cybersecurity program, as it’s critical to identifying and defending against many types of attacks. That message isn’t lost on CISOs, with the use of network traffic […]

January 17, 2024

I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, […]

June 24, 2022

For most retailers, effective networking must deliver on the three Ps: protection, performance, and price. One major retailer with more than 1,700 stores had found that its legacy network was failing to meet any of these touchstones. For one, it […]

June 10, 2022

A10 Networks has published global research revealing the challenges and priorities of enterprise organisations in today’s post pandemic era, as we learn to live with COVID-19, and how this is shaping future technology requirements. Of the 250 enterprise organisations surveyed […]

March 24, 2022

Firewalls — physical devices that monitor all inbound and outbound network traffic — keep enterprises safe from unauthorized access. Backhauling like that doesn’t work with the cloud. Physical network devices impose limitations of scale and access that are incompatible with […]

January 28, 2022

Chinese vendor Huawei’s green 5G strategy aims to help carriers to build networks with high performance and energy saving at the same time, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing for Huawei, told RCR Wireless News. “Green is the latest buzz […]

November 30, 2021

The heads of Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and 11 other European carriers called on U.S. tech giants to help pick up the tab for 5G, fiber and cable network buildouts. The network traffic U.S. services generate requires massive infrastructure investment — […]

August 16, 2021

The vast majority of web traffic – nearly 90% as of the end of 2019 – is encrypted to protect the information inside from malicious actors during transit. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is nearly synonymous with this process, and it […]

April 3, 2020

In a call this week, wireless and wireline providers told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai that fixed network traffic is up between 20-35% across their networks, while cellular network traffic is up between 10-20%. With social distancing encouraged and […]

February 19, 2020

Data. Your business and computers are full of it. While much of that data is useless to anyone else, every firm has key assets that any attacker or other competitor would love to access. Data can leave your organization in […]

February 18, 2020

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic. Not only can automation help address these […]

September 30, 2019

There was a time when the web was open. Quite literally—communications taking place on the early web were not masked in any significant fashion. This meant that it was fairly trivial for a bad actor to intercept and read the […]

September 24, 2019

Cybersecurity these days is a complicated endeavor. Threats can come from anywhere, via any medium. Organizations have tried to compensate by investing millions in various defenses, and still get breached on a regular basis. The complexity of most defenses is […]

July 23, 2019

RSA and Cisco released the first ever Findings Report from the RSA Conference 2019 Security Operations Center (SOC). The RSA® Conference SOC analyzes the Moscone Center wireless traffic, which is an open network during the week of the Conference. The […]

February 24, 2016

The topic of mobility continues to dominate and fuel our industry,, particularly because of the opportunities made possible by my other passion, fog computing. As mobile network traffic continues to explode, traditional cellular, backhaul and packet core architectures will begin […]