network security archives

Firewall Trends And Priorities For 2022

In the past two years, companies have experienced an unprecedented shift toward remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This brought new…

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Patch is available for the Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2020-2021) Impacting Palo Alto Firewalls

Another vulnerability bug with a CVSS 10 severity score was disclosed last week. Palo Alto Networks has published the security advisory PAN-148988 for a…

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Augmenting Your Team During Difficult Times

These past few months have seen an enormous negative economic impact on many organizations. One that is expected to remain longer after shelter-in-place…

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Ensuring Reliability and Heightened Security of Palo Alto Networks devices during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic remains a health and humanitarian crisis. It is exerting a profound impact on the global economy and our daily lives. Businesses are…

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3 Examples of Security Infrastructure Automation in Action

Prioritizing cybersecurity and security operations can feel like an overwhelming obligation for organizations. As threats continue to evolve and become more…

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Keep Traffic Moving: Lessons from the TSA.

What is Operations Assurance? Picture an airport.  TSA has two important jobs.   The most visible job of TSA is to detect and block questionable…

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6 Tips from Network Security Professionals to Re-Ignite Your Career

We all have moments when work-life balance collapses. Time fire-fighting takes over time dedicated for more meaningful work. Whether you’re beginning in…

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Network & Security Automation: When the Lego blocks don’t fit

Who doesn’t love playing with Lego blocks? Colorful blocks of different shapes and sizes, all fitting so nicely together thanks to “the…

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Reduce the signal to noise ratio for issues up to 75%

IT operations are often experiencing alert fatigue as the influx of issues can be overwhelming. To alleviate this problem, we are introducing a new feature…

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Keep Your Network Neat and Tidy with Automatic System Labels

Labels are a way to group your devices making it easier to manage your devices and saving time when you are changing thresholds, backing up devices, viewing…

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Hired a Network Engineer? Here Are 3 Things They Will Forget to Do

When you start a new job there are is a lot to learn. When you are a security engineer, the learning curve is especially steep. There are hundreds of…

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Automating Configuration Backup

One of the most important tasks of a network and security administrator is to backup the configuration files of your device periodically. Frequency could be…

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BlueCat has acquired LiveAction

It’s official! BlueCat has acquired LiveAction’s network observability and intelligence platform, which helps large enterprises optimize the performance, resiliency, and security of their networks.