Once upon a time there was a small company in the south west of Germany that used an old check plugin for monitoring its network devices. But as their network got bigger and bigger over time, the plugin (written in Perl) became more greedy than ever before and swallowed all of the available resources. The CPUs were melting and the RAM was about to collapse. So a small team of creative software developers decided to take the fate of their company into their own hands.

It is not only the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated rise of remote work that is shaping the everyday routine of network security practitioners. Let's take a look at 5 major trends in network security.

Juniper Networks provides a range of IT network and security devices, including routers, switches, access points, and firewalls. As you scale your on-prem infrastructure with potentially thousands of devices distributed across multiple locations, getting visibility into your entire network can easily become a pain point.

Whenever I look broadly at my career in telecom, one area that always amuses me is the extent to which our collective business enjoys its peculiarities. Sort of like our own secret handshake society full of unique terms and abbreviations like AIN & ANI, DDI and CLID or CLECs and POTS. After all, the Bell System used to formally publish a list of abbreviations and acronyms. Maybe it is just in our DNA?