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23-Mar-2022 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Monitoring for Country-Specific Traffic
As in past years, financially motivated attacks continue to be the most common, likewise, actors categorized as “organized crime” continue to be the top threat ...
21-Dec-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Facebook and Slack Outages Show That Visibility Is Mission Critical
In early October, two major outages related to DNS configuration changes affected the customer experience for the users of digital giants, Slack and Facebook. The ...
15-Dec-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Log4J Threat Hunting with NetProfiler and AppResponse
A recently discovered vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4J (CVE-2021-44228)1 enables remote code execution exploits in a variety of common software. This happens through ...
06-Aug-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Using the Network to Contain Supply Chain Attacks
These days we’re hearing more and more about ‘supply chain attacks’. That’s when a component of an application has a weakness with the potential to ...
02-Aug-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Detection vs. Protection: Painting a Complete Picture of Your Security Position with Unified NPM
I’ve spent 20 years trying to help people understand IT problems (and solutions) and to dispel confusion. I really enjoy finding new ways to map ...
16-Jul-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Expanding Gig Economy Raises Security Concerns
COVID-19 has fundamentally changed traditional labor models and employment conditions. Many 9-5 office workers, having proved they can be just as productive working from home, ...
14-Jun-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Parallels Between the Roman Empire and Zero Trust Network Security
It seems that the term “zero-trust” is emerging as the latest buzzword in network security and cybersecurity communities. To explain it, one can look to ...
17-May-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
Securely Optimize SMB Traffic with the Riverbed WinSec Controller
Server Message Block (SMB) traffic is a very common type of network traffic in most organizations, and it’s one of the most common types optimized ...
04-May-2021 • by Riverbed Technology
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 ...