A supply chain attack is when cybercriminals breach your network by compromising an outside vendor or partner. Often, these attacks exploit a weak link in your trusted ecosystem of third-party software, hardware, and integrations. A hacker will, for example, use a...
Why You Need a Next-Gen OOB Console Server
An OOB (out-of-band) console server is a fundamental data center tool that allows you to view, manage, and troubleshoot critical remote infrastructure on a dedicated network connection. While the functionality of generation 1 console servers is limited, generation 2...
Network Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
Your organization may feel secure now, but a disaster could occur at any moment. For example, the war in Ukraine took the world by surprise and left many organizations scrambling to protect and recover critical infrastructure, applications, and data from Ukrainian...
What does 2001: A Space Odyssey have to do with network automation?
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”Those nine words couldn’t possibly be related to network automation. Or could they? Uttered famously by fictional supercomputer HAL 9000 in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, those words might have...
Orchestrating Hybrid Network Environments: Challenges, Solutions, and Best Practices
A hybrid network environment combines infrastructure from a public cloud with a private cloud and/or on-premises deployment. Your compute, storage, and service resources are distributed across multiple locations and platforms and connected via WAN (wide area network)....
Hyperautomation vs Automation: How Are They Different?
Automation can help you streamline network management in your enterprise by reducing human error, speeding up processes, and facilitating NetDevOps. Hyperautomation takes things a step further by attempting to remove all human intervention from IT and business...
How to Choose Secure Out-of-Band Management
Out-of-band access gives you an alternative path to manage your critical remote infrastructure at data centers, branch offices, and other distributed locations. However, that management link creates an additional point of entry for malicious actors to breach and even...