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VoIP Security Solutions: How to Protect Your Calls

VoIP has revolutionized business communication with its low cost, flexibility, and seamless integration into digital workflows. However, these benefits come with risks. Like any internet service, VoIP is vulnerable to attacks that can disrupt operations and threaten privacy. For businesses, securing VoIP is essential - it's vital for maintaining reliable communication and safeguarding customer trust.

Is Your Network Automation Strategy Already Obsolete?

You know the feeling. It’s that familiar rhythm of playing defense, racing from one network fire to the next. The alerts pile up, users report slowdowns, and your team of brilliant engineers spends its days tracing packets instead of focusing on the future. For years, automation has been the answer. You’ve built scripts and workflows to handle repetitive tasks, which has certainly helped.

Introducing DX NetOps Topology: What It Provides, How It Works

Networks aren’t what they used to be. While your network operations teams still have legacy equipment to manage, they’re also contending with the expanded reliance on software-defined networking (SDN), hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, private clouds, and more. These environments are anything but static. They’re sprawling, dynamic, and evolving faster than ever—which means that establishing and retaining visibility and control is more challenging than ever.

What is IPv6 and Why Smart, Integrated IPAM is Essential for Managing It Efficiently

With the internet expanding rapidly, the older IPv4 system just can’t keep up with the demand for new IP addresses. That’s where IPv6 comes in. If you’re wondering what IPv6 is, it’s the next-generation internet protocol designed to replace IPv4, offering a much larger pool of addresses and better efficiency. Let’s break down the essentials.

When Do You Really Need SNMP Device Monitoring?

In the world of network monitoring, SNMP is the tried-and-true protocol that’s been helping IT teams monitor device health for decades. Whether you're managing switches, routers, firewalls, or access points, SNMP Device Monitoring remains one of the most widely used methods for tracking device performance and status. At Obkio, one of the most common questions we hear from prospects is: “Do you offer SNMP device monitoring?” The short answer: Yes, absolutely.

HAProxyConf 2025 Recap

A lot can change in three years. The world of 2022 was a quite different place. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving living monarch, the world population hadn’t yet cracked eight billion, and many of us were still emerging from the strangeness of the Covid years. Meanwhile, at HAProxyConf 2022, we unveiled HAProxy Fusion Control Plane for the first time.

Top 5 MSP takeaways from the 2025 IT Trends Report

Earlier this year, Auvik released our annual IT Trends Report, spotlighting some of the key changes for network management, MSP, and IT practitioners. We know the market and its ups and downs can have a huge impact on the success of MSPs, so we’re bringing you a roll-up of key statistics and findings related to MSP specifically. Read on to see what we found.

AI-Enabled Network Management: Revolutionize Operator Workflows with AI Agents

For today's leading service providers and large enterprises, ensuring peak performance requires navigating a labyrinth of data streams, monitoring tools, and legacy systems. This often leaves network operators spending more time searching for information than acting on it. A new AI-enabled network management is dawning, promising to upend these cumbersome workflows.

LATAM Rising: Building the AI-Ready Digital Frontier

What happens when an entire region rethinks its digital future? In this episode of Uplink, Gabriel Del Campo, VP of Data Center, Security & Cloud at Cirion Technologies, joins host Michael Reid to explore how Latin America is transforming into a global tech player. From sustainable energy and AI-optimized data centers to regional regulatory reform, LATAM is moving fast - and with intention. This episode dives into the tech trends shaping the continent and what they mean for global cloud infrastructure, investment, and connectivity.

How to Block an External Attack with FortiGate and Progress Flowmon ADS

It’s a question we hear often - how do we use the Progress Flowmon solution to block an attack? Flowmon is not an inline appliance that stands in the path of inbound traffic, so we partner with third-party vendors who supply equipment such as firewalls or unified security gateways. In this post, we’re going to show you how to instruct Fortinet’s firewall FortiGate via Flowmon ADS to block traffic in response to a detected anomaly or attack.