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Availability issues are striking again and the business can’t operate--it looks like maybe this time a server is down? Determining the root cause can be a challenge, if not impossible, without the right traffic analysis. After all, instead of a server or application issue causing the outage, your worst nightmare could be happening--a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks aren’t what they used to be. While still viewed as powerful business disruptors, with

A rogue employee tore a 2.9 million-record-sized hole into his employer’s IT infrastructure according to an advisory posted by Canada’s Desjardins Group, the largest federation of credit unions in North America. The breach, carried out by the since-fired employee, involved the exfiltration of 2.7 million individual's records and 173,000 business’s records – about 41% of Desjardins clientele. The leaked information included names, birth dates, social insurance numbers, address

Virtualization--it’s actually not so new. Since the 1960s, the computing concept has been in use and has been defined as: “The art and science of making the function of an object or resource simulated or emulated in software identical to that of the corresponding physically realized object. In other words, we use an abstraction to make software look and behave like hardware, with corresponding benefits in flexibility, cost, scalability, reliability, and often overall capabili