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How to Sell Security with N-able Head Nerd Stefanie Hammond

In this episode, Stefanie Hammond, N-able Head Nerd for Sales and Marketing, talks to Pete Roythorne about her new Selling Security Digital Playbook—Defend and Prosper: Maximizing the Cybersecurity Opportunity—which focuses on giving MSPs a step-by-step guide to building, pricing, marketing, and selling security services. During this conversation she emphasizes the importance of understanding the target market and their needs, as well as the value of bundling security services instead of selling them as individual tools.

Easy Ways to Interconnect Your Network

In 2024, an interconnected network is a must-have. Here’s how to get one and supercharge your business operations. Globally distributed networks, remote workforces, multicloud architectures – all of these setups have something important in common (besides the fact they’re the norm now). They all leverage multiples to maximize business benefits. Multiple locations, multiple endpoint types, multiple cloud providers.

Easily Remove Existing HAProxy Connections Made via Client Authentication

Most load balancers only check a client certificate when the client first connects. However, this can be problematic if a client stays connected for an extended period of time. Staying connected would allow clients to continually send and receive data. Imagine you have an employee whose certificate and key were stolen by an adversary. If you are using TLS client authentication, that adversary can connect to your infrastructure and maintain illegal access.

Step-by-Step Guide to Integrating AppNeta with Grafana via API

AppNeta comes pre-loaded with a number of powerful dashboards and reports so you can quickly and easily understand your network performance. But what if your team uses Grafana to visualize its network operation monitoring data? Simple—just set up a connection between AppNeta’s API and Grafana. You’ll be able to visualize all your networking data in one place. This article is a step-by-step guide to set up a connection between AppNeta and Grafana using AppNeta’s API.

Introducing a New, Zero-Touch Way to Manage Your DX NetOps Upgrades

For every customer who has an existing DX NetOps solution deployed, an upgrade can be a daunting task. Even for seasoned administrators, the process of logging into each box, running the pre-checks, and then executing the installers can be tedious. With the solution’s support for zero-touch administration (ZTA), the effort becomes easier. Now, you can plan, test, and then finally upgrade your deployment versions in one session.

With AppNeta, ResultsCX Decreases Network Performance Triage Time by 90%

In order to deliver its differentiated, boutique level of customer care services, the team at ResultsCX has had to navigate some challenges in recent years that teams in many organizations can relate to. The organization relies extensively and constantly on its network connections—and outages and poor performance can be a big problem. This post offers an introduction to the challenges the company was facing, and it reveals how AppNeta by Broadcom delivered the solution they needed.

What Are Network Packet Drops & How to Measure Them

Imagine you’re in the middle of a phone call, and suddenly, the conversation cuts out for a moment. You miss a word, a sentence, or even an entire part of the discussion. It’s frustrating, right? This interruption is similar to what happens in a network when data packets are dropped and fail to reach their destination. These interruptions are known as network packet drops.