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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. Convergence

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How to Monitor Packet Loss and Latency in the Cloud

Kentik

Firewall configured to drop packets (all ICMP is dropped). Since we are focused on the cloud in this article, we find that SNMP is great for LANs and WANs, but we can’t use it to see inside devices within the cloud. Packet loss can be caused by a wide variety of factors, including: Bad cables (electrostatic interference).

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IT Infrastructure Management: Benefits, Challenges and Best Practices

Kaseya

In other words, the network comprises all software and hardware elements required to enable security, internet connectivity, network enablement and firewall. LAN domain. The LAN domain comprises all the elements that build the local area network such as routers, hubs, workstations, Wi-Fi, switches and access points. WAN domain.

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Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience

Kentik

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc. We can help with easy-to-start synthetic monitoring, without touching your network or application stack.