Shadow IT is everywhere. What began with employees or departments bringing familiar tools such as personal email or file-sharing apps into the workplace has grown into unauthorized...

Cybersecurity often feels like a race where you don’t know when the starting gun will fire. The moment a threat slips past the perimeter, the countdown begins. Every minute between...

Executive Summary Between February and September 2025, NETSCOUT’s ATLAS telemetry confirmed 249 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks attributed to the threat actor Keymous+...

Ruth Brown, principal analyst for the Wireless Networks group at Heavy Reading (part of Omdia), recently published an analyst note titled “AI-Powered RAN: Moving Beyond Basic...

For years, the security industry has been captivated by the promises of new acronyms: EDR, XDR, CDR. Each wave has promised broader coverage, better detection, and faster responses...

A couple of our recent blogs have shared findings from a survey administered at Cisco Live 2025 with 319 IT professionals participating. The first was about the top troubleshooting...

Research shows that natural disasters are increasing— of the 10 years with the most natural disasters, 9 were in the last decade. From 1980 to 2024, the U.S. averaged 9 events per...

The NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report presents a succinct and research-driven analysis of the dynamic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and defense landscape...

In 2000, backed by DARPA, Cisco, and Intel, and based on research from a professor (Farnam Jahanian) and one of his graduate students (G. Robert Malan) from the University of...

Five months ago, during a family road trip, I grew frustrated when my favorite mobile game, Clash Royale, kept lagging. “This shouldn’t be happening,” I thought. “I want to play...

The massive scale of the tournament, which includes 16 stadiums and 104 matches, will push the power of mobile networks to the limit. Global sporting events have always driven...

The wrong data can be worse than no data at all. Across sectors, operations teams are dealing with an unprecedented volume of information from applications, networks, clouds, and...

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in frequency and sophistication. For organizations across every sector...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published its 2025 “Cloud Network Traffic Data: Empowering Network and Security Operations in the Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Era” report...

As the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape continues to evolve, so must defenses to maintain availability. DDoS attacks are a powerful tool in a cyberadversary’s...

Ruth Brown, Principal Analyst, Mobile Network, at HeavyReading - recently wrote an analyst note titled “Quality Data for Network AI: Automating with Accuracy.” She discusses...

Executive Summary July’s botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity remained elevated, with pressure spikes around the U.S. holiday period and continued automation...

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