With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

For network admins and network security professionals, one of the most important tools to learn to use is Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), a free and open source network analyzer/packet sniffer software ...

Because of the limitations of SPAN/monitor ports on switches, organizations have turned to using taps and packet monitoring switches. These solutions can be expensive which has lead companies to look ...

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--cPacket Networks Inc. proudly announces that the Tolly Group, a globally recognized leader in independent validation and testing, has confirmed that cPacket’s packet ...

Route analytics vendor Packet Design, whose technology has won the company partnerships with HP and Cisco, is set to unveil a set of appliances designed to augment the routing data collected by its ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

Ubiquitous encryption of network traffic prevents you from performing deep packet inspection, but you can still detect and prevent a lot of attacks. Security experts have been screaming at you for ...

When your car starts to get sluggish you pop the bonnet and check the individual components underneath. So why is it that when our networks start to run slow the components are often the last thing ...