Kentik

MAY 15, 2023

Leading service providers, including Orange, are investing more in threat mitigation system (TMS) platforms for robust DDoS protection. Given how swiftly DDoS attacks are carried out, immediate detection and response time are critical to mitigating service downtime. Have questions or want to learn more?

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Kentik recently announced some major new enhancements to Kentik Detect in the arena of DDoS protection. If you saw that announcement and/or some of the materials associated with it, you’ll notice that Kentik Detect now supports integrated automation of multiple DDoS attack mitigation options.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 2, 2017

While Kentik addresses use cases across monitoring, alerting, analytics, and planning, organizations will likely always encounter specific scenarios that aren’t totally handled by any one tool or system. APIs for Kentik. We realize, however, that Kentik Detect alone may not cover all network use cases.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If you haven’t seen Kentik or been updated in a while, we’ve got some cool new things to share with you. What’s Kentik up to at NANOG 68? A few weeks ago, Kentik announced the first network performance monitoring solution that is built for cloud and digital operations. Preview of new anomaly and DDoS detection.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2016

RTBH is effective, inexpensive, and simple to implement with Kentik Detect. Destination-based RTBH is not only incredibly effective at protecting network infrastructure, it’s also inexpensive and can be simple to implement, particularly with Kentik Detect, which makes it exceptionally easy and flexible to automate.

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Kentik

MARCH 27, 2017

I recently had an interesting conversation with an industry analyst about how Kentik customers use our big data network visibility solution for more accurate DDoS detection, automated hybrid mitigation, and deep ad-hoc analytics. Plus they often have a multitude of siloed tools for network analysis, DDoS detection, and mitigation.

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Kentik

JANUARY 17, 2017

Kentik Integration with Thunder TPS Pairs Detection with Mitigation. As a company, Kentik announced ground-breaking DDoS detection capabilities in Kentik Detect. Late 2016 was a busy time for DDoS on multiple fronts. All of which brings me to the topic of today’s blog post.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Troubleshooting Our SaaS… With Our Own Platform. Here at Kentik, we use a microservices architecture for our production Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, and we also happen to have a great solution for monitoring and alerting about the performance of that kind of application. Issue 1: Pushing Code to Repository.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Kentik’s Scalable IoT DDoS Protection Kentik’s adoption of a big data architecture is at the core of their network monitoring and DDoS protection platform, Kentik Detect®. Full data retention, deep IoT analytics – Kentik’s big data solution doesn’t create summaries or roll-ups and discard network traffic details.

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Kentik

JULY 16, 2018

At Kentik, our network analytics platform requires dozens of complex forms (see image at right). Network and security teams enter everything from IP addresses to complex regular expressions, tackling everything from peering and capacity planning, to performance monitoring, and anomaly detection and alerting.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2016

That requirement dovetails nicely with the primary purpose of Kentik Detect™, which is to enable customers to monitor and analyze network traffic so that they can identify and resolve issues affecting network availability, performance, efficiency, and integrity. Detecting unauthorized communications.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

At least that’s how Alex Henthorn-Iwane of Kentik sees it.”. Kentik offers a cloud-friendly NPM solution that includes the mature and proven nProbe NPM agent from ntop that can be installed on application and load balancing servers. Kentik Detect also takes in flow, BGP, SNMP and other data at scale from routers, switches, probes.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Identifying Source and Scope with Kentik Detect. At Kentik, we’re focused on visibility and analytics for an increasingly broad range of networking use cases, so we naturally wondered if we might be able to see the performance impact of this incident on real users accessing the Kentik Detect portal.

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Kentik

MAY 10, 2018

Compared to dedicated environments, multi-tenant infrastructures carry a higher risk of breach or failure, which makes enhanced threat detection and monitoring a critical security function. By gaining real-time visibility into your network, organizations can detect any unusual activities before they create damage or financial loss.

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Kentik

APRIL 17, 2017

The week of April 24th will be a busy one for Kentik, with interesting events in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Kentik will be sponsoring and participating in the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring 2017 conference running April 25-26 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text].

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Kentik

MAY 23, 2017

DDoS detection and API-driven mitigation. That’s why we started Kentik. Kentik’s founders were network operators running some of the world’s largest networks, and they were frustrated with the pitiful state of commercially available network monitoring tools, particularly for flow data. Need Answered: Kentik Detect.

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Kentik

JANUARY 3, 2017

Kentik Detect Recognized for Virtual Network Infrastructure. Kentik is honored to have been named by Forrester Research as a breakout vendor in the Virtual Network Infrastructure (VNI) space. Along with Kentik, the report includes Arista Networks, Nuage Networks, and VeloCloud. Why Was Kentik Included? What’s VNI?

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Kentik

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I wanted to briefly cover a couple of interesting tidbits related to current open source network visualization and how Kentik can complement Internet2’s forthcoming DDoS scrubbing service offering. Kentik Highly Complementary to New DDoS Scrubbing Service. However, the cost of that detection service add-on isn’t trivial.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The first generation of DDoS protection services were based on products built solely around detection and mitigation appliances. But there’s no longer any reason for detection to be trapped in first-generation technology. The key to solving this DDoS detection accuracy issue is big data. Big Data That Works.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

That’s why high-speed satellite broadband provider Viasat turned to Kentik. The legacy tools Viasat used in the past weren’t capable of incorporating normal daily or weekly traffic variation into their detection algorithms, producing a high volume of both false positives and false negatives.

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Kentik

AUGUST 10, 2018

Next-generation service delivery platforms need to deliver a superior customer experience in a more efficiently managed SDN environment. Kentik helps service assurance engineers that are tasked directly with nurturing the viability and performance of their applications in their organizations no matter what networks are used.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That’s how much flow data is ingested by Kentik Data Engine (KDE), the distributed big data backend that powers Kentik Detect®. It’s also just one of the many interesting statistics that we run across as we operate our SaaS platform for network traffic analytics. But for Kentik customers, the number is much lower.

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Kentik

JULY 24, 2018

Kentik customers can get full visibility into network activity within GCP projects — and also between GCP and traditional data centers in hybrid cloud architectures. VPC Flow Logs are now supported in Kentik with Google Cloud Platform-specific tags. Fortunately, that situation is now changing for the better.

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Kentik

AUGUST 28, 2019

Major networking vendors now support streaming telemetry on many of their hardware platforms, including: Cisco - OS: IOS XE, XR and Nexus OS; Platform: ASR9K, CRS, NCS 6K. Juniper - OS: Junos OS; Platform: MX, QFX, EX, vMX. Kentik’s Approach to Streaming Telemetry. The Vendor Ecosystem. Arista - EOS. Nokia - SR OS.

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Kentik

JANUARY 3, 2018

Kentik’s Scalable and Flexible IoT Analytics. Kentik’s adoption of a big data architecture is at the core of the network monitoring platform, Kentik Detect®. This makes it easier for IoT-based threats to be readily detected versus normal traffic.

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Kentik

JULY 19, 2017

We’re incredibly excited today to announce that KDDI, a leading global carrier and Fortune 500 company, has chosen to deploy the Kentik platform to drive planning, operating, and protecting their network assets and services. Why KDDI Selected Kentik. Kentik gives us the answers we need to build a better network.”.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman and analyst Jim Metzler. On September 20, Kentik announced Kentik NPM, the first network performance monitoring solution designed for the speed, scale, and architecture of today’s digital business. What is Kentik NPM? Why Kentik NPM uses a host agent.

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Kentik

AUGUST 14, 2017

Given that Kentik was founded primarily by network engineers, it’s easy to think of our raison d’etre in terms of addressing the day-to-day challenges of network operations. While that’s a key aspect of our mission, our unique big data platform for capturing, unifying, and analyzing network data actually supports a broader scope.

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Kentik

APRIL 14, 2017

Next week, Kentik will be sponsoring and participating in the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring 2017 conference. Why Kentik & ONUG? All of these enterprise organizations are looking to modernize their approach analytics across the board to harness cloud-scale computing platforms and open, native APIs.

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Kentik

JUNE 6, 2017

traffic, routing, performance, DNS, and HTTP) and making it available for integrated approaches to analysis and anomaly detection. Big data analytics have been shown to be superior in detection accuracy, leading to greater automation. Kentik makes it easy to access and utilize network traffic data.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

As background, Kentik sponsored the EMA report, so we supported Shamus in coming up with questions to ask the 200 survey respondents who drove the report’s findings. That’s why our founders built Kentik with: Immediate ROI : Here’s why our customers say Kentik drives the fastest ROI.

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Kentik

JUNE 12, 2017

As we were talking about the ways that big data platforms for network analytics can provide value, I could clearly see a divide in opinion. Some of the team saw the potential for big data network traffic intelligence as a platform. One observation he made is that big data network analytics is a transformational platform.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. How Kentik Helps Operators Turn Network Data into Sales (Light Reading). The team here at Kentik recently caught up with Carol Wilson of Light Reading. Now, one network intelligence specialist, Kentik Technologies Inc., As the U.S.

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Kentik

JANUARY 19, 2016

Kentik applies big data and the power of the cloud to network analytics. Kentik provides SaaS-based network analytics solutions. Taking a big-data approach to advanced network analytics, Kentik leverages cloud scaling to capture and store entire streams of raw network flow records, not just summary metadata.

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Kentik

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since the nature of our business here at Kentik is network traffic intelligence, we had a good view of what the Internet looked like leading up to and through the eclipse’s totality. Another Kentik customer who serves content to consumers globally also saw traffic dip during the eclipse.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Kentik’s SaaS Approach. Kentik is the first to take on ultra-high-volume NetFlow monitoring using a highly cost-effective SaaS approach at massive scale with near real-time results. This enables internal tool development teams to integrate with the Kentik SaaS environment to address their specific operational needs.

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Kentik

JULY 13, 2017

This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. Also this week, Kentik’s survey from Cisco Live reveals network challenges affecting digital transformation. Study: Cloud Complicates Networks More than SDN, NFV (The Virtualization Review) Kentik this week announced findings from a survey we conducted at Cisco Live.

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