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The Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) PRISM report on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation solutions for 2025 is available now. EMA is an industry-leading analyst firm specializing in a wide range of technology areas, including cybersecurity. It is dedicated to providing comprehensive research, analysis...

According to Mordor Intelligence, the IT infrastructure market is expected to grow from $230.11 billion to $433.43 billion by 2030. A strong infrastructure supports expansion, new technologies, virtualization, and growing customer demands. But that same growth often leads to infrastructure sprawl, where operational...

Threat hunting isn’t just a buzzword anymore; it’s a necessity. At RSA Conference 2025, one theme came through loud and clear: Cyberthreat hunting has matured, and the expectations surrounding it have evolved. To understand what’s really happening inside security teams, we conducted a survey with vetted cybersecurity...

NETSCOUT is pleased to announce it has again been recognized as an industry disruptor and innovator with the 2025 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the leading-edge vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous...

When your security tools trigger an alert, what happens next? For many security operations center (SOC) teams, the real work begins after the detection, in the investigation phase. You need to know not just that something happened, but what exactly happened and when, where, and how deeply the attack may have spread...

Success in the cloud depends less on adoption and more on agility. Recent industry trends point to emerging data management challenges across cloud service providers and legacy infrastructure, often all at once. This requires a shift in how organizations approach cloud strategies—strategically and proactively. Modern...

Curated threat intelligence takes raw threat data from various sources and selects, validates, and organizes it into a structured and actionable format. This intelligence gives insight into threat actors' activities and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to help improve an organization's cybersecurity posture...

For anyone who attended Mobile World Congress (MWC) in March, talk of artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere. No matter what booth you visited, AI was the conversation du jour. In some respects, it was a bit overwhelming. There is certainly no doubt that AI holds the promise of important benefits for telcos. The...

At RSA Conference 2025, we surveyed more than 70 cybersecurity professionals, asking some critical questions about their threat detection and incident response (TDIR) process. These weren’t random attendees. Every respondent was a vetted practitioner actively involved in TDIR, working directly within incident response...

Why is airport Wi-Fi so painfully slow? It’s a familiar complaint and a constant source of frustration. Whether they’re scanning, swiping, streaming, or checking in, travelers count on digital services to work flawlessly from curb to gate. As the summer travel season kicks into high gear, how can airport IT teams keep...

Firewalls are important network devices for security and other applications. They help filter traffic based on specific criteria to prevent illegitimate users from accessing the network. They are not, however, designed specifically for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection. Many networks suffer from...

Zero-day threats are among the biggest risks in cybersecurity. They occur when a vulnerability—in this case meaning a security flaw or weak point in software or hardware that is unknown to the vendor or developers—is exploited to gain access. They are named as such because the vendor or developer has zero days to fix...

As part of a recent survey conducted by Mobile World Live, communications service providers (CSPs) were asked to weigh in on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and the challenges they face when deploying AI for IT operations (AIOps) in the network. Their responses, published in a 34-page report, offer...

There is no doubt that where people perform their jobs has received a great deal of attention over the last five years. Certainly, the focus initially was driven by the COVID pandemic and the safety necessary for employees and customers during this challenging period. Among the many adjustments of the time was to...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published its 2025 “ Enterprise Strategies for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Networks” report highlighting the challenges facing enterprises as they design, build, and operate hybrid, multi-cloud networks. The study reveals details, trends, and conclusions about the status and use of...

Reducing energy waste is an operations principle for NETSCOUT. Lean operations support both cost savings and companywide sustainability goals. As discussed in our previous blog on sustainability, NETSCOUT has made significant progress in reducing the amount of energy consumed by its InfiniStream network monitoring...

There are about 18 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use today. For context, there are “only” 8 billion people in the world. These IoT devices, from industrial scanners to retail sensors, are embedded in daily operations, handling tasks that were once manual, siloed, or slow to scale. As more industries rely...

Communications service providers (CSPs) need to continuously evaluate network performance 24/7 to assure service and end users’ quality of experience. This blog reports details from a Fierce Network interview with Bruce Kelley, senior vice president and chief technology officer at NETSCOUT, about the importance of...

Cybersecurity isn’t a game of cat and mouse. It’s a game of chess—one where the opponent is always thinking five moves ahead. Every organization wants to believe it has a strong defense, but attackers know better. They exploit blind spots, hide in encrypted traffic, and move undetected through networks. The problem isn...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are evolving. According to the NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, there is a decline in volumetric reflection/amplification attacks, but a rise in direct path dynamic multivector attacks that evolve to evade existing defenses. Adversaries are leveraging artificial...