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Sanitizing HTTP/1: a technical deep dive into HAProxy's HTX abstraction layer

Dec 11, 2025 By Christopher Faulet In HAProxy

HTTP/1.1 is a text-based protocol where the message framing is mixed with its semantics, making it easy to parse incorrectly. The boundaries between messages are very weak because there is no clear delimiter between them. Thus, HTTP/1.1 parsers are especially vulnerable to request smuggling attacks.

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AI Advisor: Automating Network Troubleshooting with AI Runbooks

Dec 11, 2025 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik

Kentik AI Runbooks are machine-readable instructions that codify tribal knowledge into specific diagnostic workflows. By guiding AI Advisor’s reasoning and tool selection, Runbooks turn alerts into actionable, automated investigations, dramatically accelerating MTTR.

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How to Monitor VPN Performance for Remote Users

Dec 11, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio

Remote workers depend on VPNs to access corporate resources. When VPN performance tanks, productivity stops. The problem? Most IT teams troubleshoot blindly. They can't tell if slow performance is caused by VPN encryption overhead, ISP issues, or corporate infrastructure problems. Here's the reality: Your remote workers are calling the help desk, saying "the VPN is slow", but you have no visibility into what's actually happening on their end. You're guessing. Maybe you ask them to restart their router.

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A/NZ Webinar - How ThinkConcepts Strengthens Cybersecurity with Adlumin MDR

Dec 10, 2025 By N-able In N-able

In this webinar, N‑able’s Security Head Nerd, Lewis Pope, sits down with Jason Short, Head of Security at ThinkConcepts, an MSP based in Auckland, New Zealand. Jason shares how his team tackles the cybersecurity challenges SMBs face and how Adlumin MDR helps them stay ahead of evolving threats.

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Linux Patch Management in N-central

Dec 10, 2025 By N-able In N-able

In this video, Paul Kelly, Head Nerd shows you Linux Patch Management in N-central, which is now available to all N-central users that access the Ecoverse features.

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Agentic AI by Design: Evolving Our Principles for the Next Chapter of Responsible AI

Dec 10, 2025 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds

Join SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown and CTO Sai Krishna for the SolarWinds Day Closing Keynote, where they share how SolarWinds is evolving from Secure by Design to AI by Design—a bold next step in building trusted, intelligent, and future-ready IT operations. As organizations adopt AI-driven systems, embedding trust, transparency, and accountability into product development becomes essential. In this forward-looking discussion, Tim and Sai reveal how the AI by Design framework ensures responsible AI adoption while enhancing performance, reliability, and security.

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Kentik in Motion: How AI Transforms Network Chaos to Clarity

Dec 10, 2025 By Kentik In Kentik

Learn how artificial intelligence is transforming network operations through Kentik's AI Advisor platform. Philip Gervasi and Sean McGinley discuss the evolution from traditional network visibility to network intelligence, emphasizing that AI should augment, rather than replace, network engineers. They demonstrate how Kentik's AI Advisor uses natural language interfaces to perform automated root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and cost optimization.

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Imposter Syndrome in Tech

Dec 10, 2025 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds

Jon Collins of GigaOm has a nugget of wisdom everyone in tech needs to hear.

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3 Questions I Expect You to Ask Me

Dec 10, 2025 By Yann Guernion In Broadcom

As a product specialist, I’ve had countless conversations about network observability. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright confusing. The market is flooded with vendors, all claiming to have the magic bullet for your network woes. Everywhere I go, the story is the same. The neat and tidy world of the on-premises data center is gone, replaced by a sprawling environment that stretches across multiple clouds, your own facilities, and out to the edge.

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Building a Stronger Defense with Network Observability and Real-Time Monitoring

Dec 10, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the importance of network security and performance has never been more pronounced. Businesses are increasingly relying on their network infrastructure to support a wide array of critical applications, services, and user activities. As cyber threats become more sophisticated and network architectures more complex, maintaining visibility into network performance and security is essential. This is where a network observability platform becomes indispensable.

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