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Last summer, a routine update at a cybersecurity firm triggered a global IT disruption, impacting customer endpoints and servers across countless enterprise companies on every continent. This week, another worldwide internet disruption affected systems, web sites, and applications of some of the world’s largest...

On October 15, 2025, a major network infrastructure provider disclosed a sophisticated cybersecurity incident in which a nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, unauthorized access to internal systems. During the intrusion, the attackers exfiltrated portions of the company’s flagship network and application...

When it comes to cybersecurity, visibility is everything. Without it, even the most advanced tools can’t help teams detect, investigate, or respond effectively to threats lurking in their networks. That’s why we’re proud to announce that NETSCOUT’s Omnis Cyber Intelligence has been named “Overall Network Security...

"In God we trust; all others must bring data." Although the phrase is widely attributed to W. Edwards Deming, the father of the post-WWII quality movement, the sentiment applies today in that it champions a data-driven approach to business and decision-making. Deming stressed the importance of tangible evidence...

Zero-day attacks have become a significant concern in the realm of cybersecurity, posing a formidable challenge to individuals and organizations alike. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities that are unknown to the software vendor, leaving systems exposed to potential breaches. As cyberthreats evolve, understanding zero...

SCTE TechExpo25 brought together the brightest minds in broadband and telecommunications to explore the future of connectivity. From artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation to next-gen network architectures, the show floor buzzed with innovation, and NETSCOUT was right at the center of it all. At this year’s...

Every organization is chasing the same thing in security: speed, clarity, and confidence. But in reality, most are bogged down by complexity, siloed tools, and an overwhelming flood of alerts. The latest research from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) illustrates this tension clearly, and the numbers tell a story every...

Transformation rarely comes without friction. Your organization has pursued a strategy of digital transformations in the last decade that has brought innovation, automation, and competitive differentiation to your user community. The complex, multivendor, decentralized, and distributed computing environment has...

In cybersecurity, time is scarce, talent is scarce, and certainty is scarce. That’s why efficiency has quietly become the most valuable currency inside the security operations center (SOC). Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research found that 53 percent of organizations say network detection and response (NDR) has...

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape is continuously evolving, with threat actors employing new attack vectors, approaches, and dynamically changing attacks to evade defenses. DDoS attacks are getting larger and more sophisticated and are occurring more often than ever. To combat these elusive...

Shadow IT is everywhere. What began with employees or departments bringing familiar tools such as personal email or file-sharing apps into the workplace has grown into unauthorized software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence (AI). With just a few clicks, these tools become part of...

Cybersecurity often feels like a race where you don’t know when the starting gun will fire. The moment a threat slips past the perimeter, the countdown begins. Every minute between “we detected something” and “we know what to do about it” is time the attacker spends with free rein inside your environment. According to...

Ruth Brown, principal analyst for the Wireless Networks group at Heavy Reading (part of Omdia), recently published an analyst note titled “AI-Powered RAN: Moving Beyond Basic Automation.” In this article she makes the following observations: To meet evolving customer service expectations, operators are looking to...

For years, the security industry has been captivated by the promises of new acronyms: EDR, XDR, CDR. Each wave has promised broader coverage, better detection, and faster responses. And although each of these tools provides value, recent research from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reveals something the industry...

A couple of our recent blogs have shared findings from a survey administered at Cisco Live 2025 with 319 IT professionals participating. The first was about the top troubleshooting surprises we learned from the survey results, and the second shared details on how observability can help reduce mean time to resolution...

Research shows that natural disasters are increasing— of the 10 years with the most natural disasters, 9 were in the last decade. From 1980 to 2024, the U.S. averaged 9 events per year, while the annual average for the most recent 5 years is 23. Communication service providers (CSPs) play a vital role in disaster...

The NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report presents a succinct and research-driven analysis of the dynamic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and defense landscape. Intended to swiftly provide readers with actionable intelligence, the report offers critical insights essential for ongoing network management...

In 2000, backed by DARPA, Cisco, and Intel, and based on research from a professor (Farnam Jahanian) and one of his graduate students (G. Robert Malan) from the University of Michigan, Arbor Networks was founded. (In case you didn’t know, the University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan—thus the name Arbor...

Five months ago, during a family road trip, I grew frustrated when my favorite mobile game, Clash Royale, kept lagging. “This shouldn’t be happening,” I thought. “I want to play now and expect to access the service anytime, anywhere.” Little did I know just how much effort it takes to truly guard the connected world...

On a recent family road trip, I was very upset when my favorite mobile game, Clash Royale, kept lagging. “There are service degradations in this spot,” I thought to myself. A few days later, I received a scam message telling me I had unpaid tolls, and to click the link the scammer sent. This was clearly a bad actor...