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ServiceNow Integration for Obkio's Network Monitoring Tool: Now Live

Obkio's ServiceNow integration is now live. When Obkio detects a network issue, it opens an incident in ServiceNow. When the issue recovers, it resolves that same incident. Your team works the problem in the platform they already use for incident management, with the monitoring context already attached.

7 Best Network Sniffing Tools for 2026

Ever wondered what is actually using your network when it suddenly slows down? It could be a device sending too much data, a backup running at the wrong time, or an application taking too long to respond. Without visibility into network traffic, finding the real cause can take hours. That’s where network sniffing tools can help. They let you inspect network traffic, capture packets, and see what is happening between devices, servers, and applications.

Capacity Planning Under Constraints: An Off-Grid Analogy for Edge Deployments

When laptops, mobile hotspots, lighting, portable power stations, and other electronics all need to operate at an off-grid campsite, the question is no longer simply how many devices were packed. It is how much workload a limited pool of resources can support. From a capacity-planning perspective, this makes an off-grid campsite a useful analogy for an edge deployment: power is limited, connectivity is unreliable, physical space is constrained, and every component has to be deployed again on arrival.

How Modern Firewalls Help Businesses Strengthen Network Security

As business networks become more complex, the methods used to attack them are evolving as well. Organisations now need to protect cloud services, remote workers, connected devices, internal applications, and large volumes of data, often across multiple locations. Traditional perimeter security alone is no longer sufficient to address this environment.

Air-Gapped vs Private Network Backup: Which Is More Secure?

Compare air-gapped and private network backup approaches for ransomware defense, data protection, and secure recovery. Ransomware doesn’t stop at production data. Attackers are increasingly targeting the backups organizations depend on for recovery, turning a manageable incident into a much longer outage. These attacks make the choice between air-gapped and private network backup important — but it isn’t an either-or decision.

8 Best Network Diagnostic Tools for 2026

If your team manages a network across several offices and cloud systems, finding the cause of a slow or failed connection can take time. You may run into problems such as: As your network grows, a quick test from one computer may not show where the problem started or when it first appeared. Network diagnostic tools help you check devices, ports, routes, packets, and link performance.