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How to Sell Security with N-able Head Nerd Stefanie Hammond

In this episode, Stefanie Hammond, N-able Head Nerd for Sales and Marketing, talks to Pete Roythorne about her new Selling Security Digital Playbook—Defend and Prosper: Maximizing the Cybersecurity Opportunity—which focuses on giving MSPs a step-by-step guide to building, pricing, marketing, and selling security services. During this conversation she emphasizes the importance of understanding the target market and their needs, as well as the value of bundling security services instead of selling them as individual tools.

Easily Remove Existing HAProxy Connections Made via Client Authentication

Most load balancers only check a client certificate when the client first connects. However, this can be problematic if a client stays connected for an extended period of time. Staying connected would allow clients to continually send and receive data. Imagine you have an employee whose certificate and key were stolen by an adversary. If you are using TLS client authentication, that adversary can connect to your infrastructure and maintain illegal access.

Step-by-Step Guide to Integrating AppNeta with Grafana via API

AppNeta comes pre-loaded with a number of powerful dashboards and reports so you can quickly and easily understand your network performance. But what if your team uses Grafana to visualize its network operation monitoring data? Simple—just set up a connection between AppNeta’s API and Grafana. You’ll be able to visualize all your networking data in one place. This article is a step-by-step guide to set up a connection between AppNeta and Grafana using AppNeta’s API.

Easy Ways to Interconnect Your Network

In 2024, an interconnected network is a must-have. Here’s how to get one and supercharge your business operations. Globally distributed networks, remote workforces, multicloud architectures – all of these setups have something important in common (besides the fact they’re the norm now). They all leverage multiples to maximize business benefits. Multiple locations, multiple endpoint types, multiple cloud providers.

The Need for Speed: Highlights from IBM and Catchpoint's Global DNS Performance Study

Despite DNS being the backbone of Internet connectivity, reliable metrics for benchmarking DNS performance are surprisingly scarce. This gap often leaves IT teams navigating in the dark, unable to effectively gauge how their DNS configurations stack up against industry standards. To address this pressing need, Catchpoint worked with IBM NS1 Connect to provide a clear, data-driven picture of DNS performance.

Understanding Network Traffic Blockages in AWS

In this post, explore the challenges of diagnosing network traffic blockages in AWS due to the complex and dynamic nature of cloud networks. Learn how Kentik addresses these issues by integrating AWS flow data, metrics, and security policies into a single view, allowing engineers to quickly identify the source of blockages enhancing visibility and speeding up the resolution process.

Introducing a New, Zero-Touch Way to Manage Your DX NetOps Upgrades

For every customer who has an existing DX NetOps solution deployed, an upgrade can be a daunting task. Even for seasoned administrators, the process of logging into each box, running the pre-checks, and then executing the installers can be tedious. With the solution’s support for zero-touch administration (ZTA), the effort becomes easier. Now, you can plan, test, and then finally upgrade your deployment versions in one session.