What A Firewall Actually Does (Simple Explanation)
What it actually does A firewall sits at the boundary between two networks, usually between yours and the internet, and decides what is allowed to cross. Every piece of traffic…
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Automatically discover and remediate root causes with Grafana Assistant Investigations
You can use Grafana Assistant Investigations to automatically discover incidents and help find root causes—and this AI-powered Grafana Cloud feature recently got a major upgrade to give you even more…
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Rapid7 Named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape
Rapid7 has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54126826, June 2026). This is the first IDC SIEM MarketScape to bring the enterprise…
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NSX-T Edge Transport Node Packet Capture
NSX-T v3.0.1 and v3.1.3 were used to try the stuff described below As always with network engineers, even when working with SDN/SSDC solutions, sooner or later you will be asked…
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Optimized Monitoring for Hybrid Environments with ICT Solutions
ICT Solutions is a managed service provider (MSP) specializing in fully managed IT Support, cloud, cybersecurity and more. Based in Liverpool, they offer IT support across the UK. They work…
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Winning 54% of the time
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. There’s a fairly cliché phrase in cybersecurity that I’m sure our audience is familiar with: Attackers only need to be right once, whereas…
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AI Certifications That Matter in the present AI-Driven IT Landscape » Network Interview
With the AI boom, professionals are looking to acquire new AI certifications to take a leap in the job market. AI certification will give them an edge in the job…
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Cisco DNA – Digital Network Architecture Overview
Software-Defined Networking is a technology for automating network control and management, which is a great help to improve and automate network deployment and services. To implement SDN on an enterprise…
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Dynatrace plans FedRAMP Class D (High)
Dynatrace intends to pursue FedRAMP Class D (High) certification, building on its existing FedRAMP Moderate certification established in 2020. For federal agencies managing sensitive, mission-critical workloads, this strategic direction signals…
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Cato CTRL Threat Brief: AI, Zero-Days, and the US-China Cyber Arms Race
TL;DR Underlying the US–China AI race, there’s arguably a more sinister arms race—the race to identify zero-day threats. Frontier AI algorithms, such as Anthropic Mythos (here) and China’s Qihoo 360…
