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Episode 2: Don’t Fly Blind – Network Analytics in Real Time The phrase “flying blind” was first used in World War II when, during nighttime or bad weather, pilots were forced to fly only using the limited instruments they had available. For IT professionals, visibility is a tricky thing.  There is…

Maybe your users mistakenly clicked on a suspicious ad. Or maybe they were tricked into opening an email link. But no matter how it happened, here you are: Ransomware has encrypted your files, and you need to pay a hefty fee to get them back. It’s not just you: The attacks continue to proliferate —…

There has been a lot of discussion lately around why IoT projects fail. Many projects stall at the proof of concept (POC) phase, and only about a quarter of these investments are considered a success.  With these setbacks however, there are some notable achievements as well. As part of our factory o…

This is exciting. It has been just over a year since my first blog in which I stated, “To win in today’s market where disruptive startups and agile competitors are advancing on all sides, digitizing the enterprise to infuse greater agility and innovation is critical. This means transforming your ope…

He may or may not have hacked his mom’s cable box when he was a kid, he definitely worked for the Navy as a cryptologist, and he has since worked for NASA, the TSA, and Silent Circle. So Branson Matheson has a lot to say about information security and the desire for online privacy that most business…

Growing up in Britain, a fair share of our history lessons covered the black death. It was a truly horrible plague that affected all without prejudice, ravaging the young and old throughout towns, cities, countries and the continent with seemingly no end. Surprisingly, it’s hard to remember everythi…

Beers with Talos Episode 5 “It Has Been 0-days Since This Term was Abused” is now available.  Beers with Talos offers a topical, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent take on cybersecurity issues. If you are an executive, a grizzled SOC vet, or a n00b, you will take something away from eac…

Take a trip with me, if you will, back to the turn of the 21st century – when “digital transformation” was but a gleam in our eyes. Back then, we barely had email at work. The internet was still kind of a novelty. And social media had yet to be invented. (How did we survive?) THIS was the highest-te…

Service provider networks are at the epicenter of digitization, affecting how businesses and entire industries will operate for years to come.  Today it seems as if every disruptive new business model shaking up an industry is reliant on the innovative use of applications based on network services.…