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Troubleshooting SaaS User Experiences with AppNeta from Broadcom Software

Many organizations are moving to SaaS-based hosting environments but how do you monitor the user experience of these apps when they no longer exist within the four walls of your data center? In this demo, we are going to reveal how network operations teams can gain true visibility into the user experience with AppNeta from Broadcom Software - even when they do not own any of the network infrastructure delivering that experience.

What can be learned from recent BGP hijacks targeting cryptocurrency services

On August 17, 2022, an attacker was able to steal approximately $235,000 in cryptocurrency by employing a BGP hijack against the Celer Bridge, a service which allows users to convert between cryptocurrencies. In this blog post, I discuss this and previous infrastructure attacks against cryptocurrency services. While these episodes revolve around the theft of cryptocurrency, the underlying attacks hold lessons for securing the BGP routing of any organization that conducts business on the internet.

Harness Continuous Observability to Continuously Predict Deployment Risk

In my previous blog, I discussed how continuous observability can be used to deliver continuous reliability. We also discussed the problem of high change failure rates in most enterprises, and how teams fail to proactively address failure risk before changes go into production. This is because manual assessment of change risk is both labor intensive and time consuming, and often contributes to deployment and release delays.

Make Your MSP a Recession-Proof Business

Many believe we’re either in a recession or on the brink of one. It’s a familiar cycle: high inflation, international strife, supply chain challenges, and tightening monetary policies are all driving fears of a downturn. While the IT industry has exceeded expectations for the past few years, it isn’t immune to a recession. As a result, many IT MSPs are thinking about what they can do to ensure a recession-proof business over the next year and beyond.

The Cloud And SD-WAN

As more and more businesses move to the cloud, they discover that their traditional wide area networks (WANs) can no longer serve their needs. SD-WAN is a networking solution that offers many other benefits over traditional WANs, including reduced costs, improved performance, and increased flexibility. But what does SD-WAN stand for? Below, we'll take a deeper look at what SD-WAN solutions are and how they can help your business take advantage of the cloud.

Internet Availability Threats Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks impacting availability have been rising. The attacks aren’t only affecting Russia and Ukraine either. Public and private organizations in multiple industries have been impacted, and several nations—including the U.S. and U.K.—have issued warnings about cyberthreats from Russia.