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Network Monitoring is often considered the key in ensuring an efficiently run network. However, as the business and its operations keep expanding, network monitoring goes from being a responsibility to become a necessity. At a larger scale, network issues can result in significant hindrances for the operations.
In today’s complex network infrastructure comprised of diverse resources, devices, and users, port scans represent a significant amount of network traffic. Crackers and hackers alike use port scanners to discover port vulnerabilities that can become attack vectors to malicious outcomes. In this post, we discuss the fundamentals of port scanning, and why you need to deploy an effective port scanner software on your network right now.
HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing,and translating of messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, Stats Contexts, SSL/TLS enhancements, an improved cache, and changes in the connection layer that lay the foundation for support for HTTP/3 / QUIC. This release was truly a community effort and could not have been made possible without all of the hard work from everyone involved in active discussions on the mailing list and the HAProxy project GitHub.
Though remote work has been in practice for a decent number of years, the pandemic has made businesses take up the challenge of shifting to a completely remote workforce. All this wouldn't have been possible without high-speed internet access for all employees. Another tool that has made the transition smooth and ensured uninterrupted communication is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
At Cloudsmith, helping fledgeling startups grow from a single person operation to enterprise-level organisations is a constant joy! In those early stages, startups need all the help they can get to survive, and even veteran organisations experience similar challenges when scaling up rapidly. Cloudsmith can help with our self-service approach to managing and defining storage and bandwidth limits to keep costs under control while allowing you to scale when needed.
Cisco, one of the first companies to debut in the networking space, has given rise to radical and revolutionary technologies, inventions, and innovations that have helped set the stage for modern-day networking. Contemporary networks house an abundance of Cisco network components and employ manifold Cisco network technologies, making Cisco an integral part of their core network infrastructure.
One of the most crucial aspects of network monitoring is security monitoring. Security breaches are more common now than ever before. The whole integrity of your network is at stake if even one node gets attacked. This is why it’s vital that businesses rely on a central network security software that continuously monitors the effectiveness of the security measures in place. Having network security tools is just a small part of the bigger picture.
