Riverbed Blog
03-Mar-2023 • by John Damon
Rubber Bands, Bad Apples and Automated Orchestration
As modern networks stretch well beyond the data center, vulnerabilities are being exploited more and more by threat actors. Much like a rubber band, as...
07-Oct-2022 • by Marlin McFate
Network Visibility Proves Its Worth In Defending Against Cyber Attacks
The development of increasingly powerful and sophisticated IT security tools to defend against cyberattacks can be described as an arms race—with public and private sector...
23-Mar-2022 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Monitoring for Country-Specific Traffic
As in past years, financially motivated attacks continue to be the most common, likewise, actors categorized as “organized crime” continue to be the top threat...
21-Dec-2021 • by Leigh Finch
Facebook and Slack Outages Show That Visibility Is Mission Critical
In early October, two major outages related to DNS configuration changes affected the customer experience for the users of digital giants, Slack and Facebook. The...
15-Dec-2021 • by Phillip Gervasi
Log4J Threat Hunting with NetProfiler and AppResponse
A recently discovered vulnerability in the Java logging utility Log4J (CVE-2021-44228)1 enables remote code execution exploits in a variety of common software. This happens through...
06-Aug-2021 • by Leigh Finch
Using the Network to Contain Supply Chain Attacks
These days we’re hearing more and more about ‘supply chain attacks’. That’s when a component of an application has a weakness with the potential to...
02-Aug-2021 • by Alex Chartres (guest blogger)
Detection vs. Protection: Painting a Complete Picture of Your Security Position with Unified NPM
I’ve spent 20 years trying to help people understand IT problems (and solutions) and to dispel confusion. I really enjoy finding new ways to map...
16-Jul-2021 • by John Murphy
Expanding Gig Economy Raises Security Concerns
COVID-19 has fundamentally changed traditional labor models and employment conditions. Many 9-5 office workers, having proved they can be just as productive working from home,...
14-Jun-2021 • by Vincent Berk
Parallels Between the Roman Empire and Zero Trust Network Security
It seems that the term “zero-trust” is emerging as the latest buzzword in network security and cybersecurity communities. To explain it, one can look to...
17-May-2021 • by Phillip Gervasi