Network outages are both common and expensive – usually far more expensive than people realize. Yes, the network is down and the organization is losing money, but do you really appreciate how much money? And how much an outage can actually cost on a per minute basis? It’s not only more than most people think, it’s something that can be mitigated fairly easily.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a strong trend emerging in enterprise network security, representing the long-term capability to integrate and consolidate a variety of networking and cybersecurity tools. Let’s do a quick dive on the technology to understand why it’s necessary. SASE emerged as an outgrowth of the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology movement, which made it easier to configure, orchestrate, and manage WAN connectivity from enterprise branches.

The whole point of our beloved networks is to deliver applications and services to real people sitting at computers. So, as network engineers, monitoring the performance and efficiency of our networks is a crucial part of our job. Flow data, in particular, is a powerful tool that provides valuable insights into what’s happening in our networks for ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting poor-performing applications.

Combining AWS Outposts Rack with Direct Connect optimizes performance for demanding enterprise workloads. Megaport’s Outposts Ready Direct Connect solution simplifies the networking side.

The threat landscape that organizations faced in 2022 and continue to face in 2023 is large, complex, and continuously changing. Defense requires a multi-layered approach that delivers monitoring, detection, and response at many points within on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure and systems. A Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution is critical to a modern cybersecurity defense strategy.