In this digital economy, organizations are looking to technology as a competitive differentiator in driving higher engagement with customers, enabling new business models and staying ahead of the competition. CIOs are at the core of the transformation agenda, balancing between operational efficiency and forward-thinking projects. In both instances, servers are the bedrock of the modern
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools. Read this Gartner paper
Network Services and Enterprise Networks Network technologies “While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at
The network plays a fundamental role in enabling the shift to digital. But it simply cannot fulfill this function while it is hardware-bound and hard-coded. The network must become cloudlike to enable delivery of dynamic, rich digital services quickly and easily. This means shifting away from old approaches that require configuration of individual boxes to
The automobile industry has demonstrated significant innovation in the past decades, and over the last few years, the combination of vehicles and wireless communications has enabled automobiles to do new things. Examples include allowing smartphones to be synced wirelessly with dashboard systems, provide location tracking via GPS systems, and even offer the option of enhanced
Internet-of-Thing (IoT) botnets are not a new phenomenon. Arbor Networks routinely sees IoT botnets comprised of webcams, DVRs, and set-top boxes used to launch DDoS attacks. In fact, during a recent international event, Arbor Networks, along with our customers, helped mitigate a sustained, sophisticated 540Gbps attack launched by an IoT botnet. This attack started a
Arbor Networks has announced the release of its new SP Insight technology. SP Insight adds big data analytics capabilities to Arbor’s extensive SP network visibility and reporting platform. The Arbor Networks SP platform, previously known as Peakflow SP, helps organizations detect and deal with cyber threats, as well as improve traffic flow and network performance.
The nature of risk is uncertainty. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce Wayne declares “he [Superman] has the power to wipe out the entire human race. If we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy then we have to take it as an absolute certainty.” The fictional
This document provides a summary of the results of Arbor Networks’ 12th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR). The WISR offers direct insights from network and security professionals at the world’s leading service provider, cloud/hosting and enterprise organizations. The report covers a comprehensive range of issues from threat detection and incident response to managed services,
The spectacular and headline-grabbing cyber attacks in which thousands of data records are stolen are in no way just the result of a stroke of genius from highly talented hackers. In fact they are increasingly brought about by criminals who have managed to get through without expensive equipment and professional programming knowledge. They use exploits