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Why a Firewall is the First Line of Defense Against Cyber Attacks?

In today's fast-paced and technologically-inclined world, safeguarding sensitive business information is more critical than ever. Firewalls play a pivotal role as the first line of defense, protecting networks and data from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. For a comprehensive understanding of what a firewall is, refer to the detailed explanation at the firewall at checkpoint.com. As cyber threats continue to evolve at a rapid pace, the importance of deploying robust firewalls as part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy cannot be overstated even more so today.

Methods of Scanning Network Devices with Total Network Inventory (TNI)

In network management, efficiently scan for devices is fundamental to maintaining security, enhancing performance, and ensuring effective asset management. This article examines various scanning methods, explaining the configurations and processes required to gather detailed information.

Enterprise Wi-Fi: Your Guide to Large-Scale Wireless Networks

With the explosion of wireless devices in the workplace and emerging technologies like IoT going mainstream, enterprise Wi-Fi has become more pivotal than ever to maintain business productivity and growth. But as demand grows to securely connect employees and guests across office complexes, warehouses, educational institutions and even stadiums, IT teams grapple with significant complexity in pursuing robust and ubiquitous wireless coverage. What exactly is enterprise-grade Wi-Fi?

Top Nagios Alternatives for Advanced Network Monitoring

Monitoring the health and performance of IT infrastructure is crucial for practically all organizations to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of an organization's technology environment. By continuously tracking servers, network devices, applications, and services, organizations can promptly detect and address issues before they escalate into significant problems and impact customers.

Comparing Generative AI Offerings From Major Cloud Providers

In the last two years, generative AI offerings have exploded in the cloud space (and everywhere else). Major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are perfectly positioned to lead these efforts thanks to the fact that they offer the very resources they require to build these models, and their customers are naturally early adopters and heavy users of AI.

How Network Observability Helps Lay the Foundation of Autonomous IT Operations

We often hear the term "observability" in the context of DevOps and how SREs use telemetry data. Collecting and analyzing this telemetry data is a vital first step to a successful autonomous IT operations strategy. Observability can help you find out about problems in your system you didn’t know you had—and before your users are impacted—by giving you new visibility that your monitoring systems don’t provide. But any observability initiative must also include network observability.

Going for gold: Testing the resilience of Olympic websites

As the world gears up for the Paris Olympics, it’s not just athletes who need to be in peak condition. This Olympics comes hot on the heels of the largest IT outage in history. Recovery efforts from the CrowdStrike outage are still ongoing. Lessons will be learned, no doubt, but at least one takeaway is already evident: the modern web is an oh-so-fragile thing; neglect digital resilience at your peril.

Network topology: Definition and role in observability

Network topology describes how a network‘s nodes, connections, and devices physically arrange and interconnect, as well as how they communicate. The arrangement or configuration of a network’s components plays a crucial role in ensuring smooth ITOps with minimum downtime. Any issues in the network can disrupt operations, leading to potentially dire consequences. To prevent this, you need to understand your network functionality and structure.