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Network Security -It Takes a Village

Securing the world’s largest temporary network takes a variety of vendors working together.
For three days, InteropNet is one of the largest hacking targets on the planet. Attacks and threats come from both inside and outside the network. While the external attacks are certainly more malicious in intent, most of the internal ones ended up being […]


There Is No “I” in Network Monitoring

Well of course there IS an “I” in Monitoring! Actually there are two of them. However this very simple concept is often forgotten and quite difficult to accomplish while effectively running IT Operations. I was reminded of this while attending the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando last October.
Gartner analysts talked about the maturity model for […]