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Worldwide spending on information security reached a staggering $86.4 billion in 2017 as organizations stack up firewalls around their network perimeters and inspect incoming and outgoing traffic with an array of products including secure web gateways, forensic tools, advanced threat prevention platforms, and more.

Today enterprises face monumental security challenges. The complexity and quantity of attacks are increasing dramatically, often resulting in compromised personal, enterprise and customer data; misappropriated intellectual property; damaged reputations; and lost productivity. At the same time, security has become more complex.

The challenges faced by IT security professionals today include nebulous boundaries and constantly evolving security policies, the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the explosion of globally addressable IPv6 end-points and its impact on IoT; the diffusion of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), the spread of wide-ranging heterogeneous network...

Today’s advanced technologies, such as cloud computing, mobility, and big data analytics, are key enablers for improving enterprise productivity. While such advanced technologies provide distinct advantages to businesses, if not supported by the right infrastructure, they can expose enterprises to security risks.

There has never been a time when there was a greater need for an evolutionary transformation of the enterprise WAN. Modes of application use and destinations are changing as more applications move out of enterprise datacenters and off enterprise managed networks; bandwidth demands are increasing rapidly as enterprises try to bring the home...

Every news site has headlines daily about hacks, ransomware, or loss of confidential customer and company data. In the current digital climate, maintaining IT infrastructure security is paramount, and yet most organizations struggle with maintaining IT infrastructure security. Which servers should be acquired? Which security protections will help...

Securing enterprise and cloud networking and computing infrastructure is critical, given increasing threats to mission-critical data and resources. Prevalent cyberattack risks range from stealing an organization’s proprietary information, to virus attacks, malware, denial of service attacks, malicious code, and even stolen devices.

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) makes network time synchronization a pressing issue. As more and more network-based devices come online, network-based timing becomes critical and with many emerging applications demanding far more accuracy, guaranteeing precise timing across LAN/MAN/WAN networks has become essential.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an undeniable and unstoppable revolution. Immense numbers of intelligent sensors and devices are generating huge amounts of data that contain possibly game-changing information. It is a formidable challenge for IT leaders to collect insights from that data rapidly, cost-effectively, without opening up security...

Telecom operators worldwide are facing an exponential increase in traffic due to the rapid growth of over-the-top (OTT) video providers and social media applications. These competitive threats are forcing such operators to expand their network infrastructures in a business environment that’s already burdened by slow subscriber growth, and in some...