Why is airport Wi-Fi so painfully slow? It’s a familiar complaint and a constant source of frustration. Whether they’re scanning, swiping, streaming, or checking in, travelers...

Executive Summary Analyzing transmission control protocol (TCP) SYN segments, the initial step in the TCP three-way handshake, can reveal patterns and anomalies in network traffic...

Firewalls are important network devices for security and other applications. They help filter traffic based on specific criteria to prevent illegitimate users from accessing the...

Zero-day threats are among the biggest risks in cybersecurity. They occur when a vulnerability—in this case meaning a security flaw or weak point in software or hardware that is...

As part of a recent survey conducted by Mobile World Live, communications service providers (CSPs) were asked to weigh in on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation...

There is no doubt that where people perform their jobs has received a great deal of attention over the last five years. Certainly, the focus initially was driven by the COVID...

Executive Summary On April 28, 2025, a large-scale power outage disrupted Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, disconnecting millions from the grid and interrupting critical...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published its 2025 “ Enterprise Strategies for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Networks” report highlighting the challenges facing enterprises as...

Reducing energy waste is an operations principle for NETSCOUT. Lean operations support both cost savings and companywide sustainability goals. As discussed in our previous blog on...

There are about 18 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use today. For context, there are “only” 8 billion people in the world. These IoT devices, from industrial scanners...

Communications service providers (CSPs) need to continuously evaluate network performance 24/7 to assure service and end users’ quality of experience. This blog reports details...

Cybersecurity isn’t a game of cat and mouse. It’s a game of chess—one where the opponent is always thinking five moves ahead. Every organization wants to believe it has a strong...

Executive Summary In the last two months, DieNet, a new hacktivist group, has claimed more than 60 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeting critical infrastructure...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are evolving. According to the NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, there is a decline in volumetric reflection/amplification...

As networks evolve toward higher performance and efficiency, AI is rapidly becoming a critical tool to support and enable this transformation across the end-to-end infrastructure...

As digital transformation accelerates and AI/ML adoption expands, organizations increasingly depend on actionable metadata to improve service assurance, observability, and...

Executive Summary Attackers didn’t need new exploits to drive more than 27,000 botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in March 2025. Instead, they weaponized...

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