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Why web application security needs a multi-layered approach

Oct 29, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
The recent PHP security emergency has highlighted how vulnerabilities in widely used web technologies can quickly become a significant cybersecurity concern. It is also a reminder that protecting internet-facing applications requires more than keeping software up to date. Organisations need a layered security strategy to protect applications, maintain availability and mitigate malicious traffic.
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FortiGate, PAN-OS and Zscaler dashboards: get firewall logs into the fields they read

Oct 29, 2026 By Logit.io Team In Logit.io
FortiGate, PAN-OS and Zscaler now each have a six-dashboard pack in the Dashboard Library, live on every Logs stack. If your firewall logs already arrive as parsed module fields, the Library pre-selects the matching pack. If they don't, it won't, even when the firewall has been sending syslog for years. This post is about that gap: which parsed fields each pack reads, the Filebeat module settings that produce them, and the API checks that tell you whether the dashboards will fill before you install them.
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motadata

Network Optimization Guide With 10 Top Ways to Cut Slowdowns and Downtime

Oct 29, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does everything crawl at peak hour, even though every switch looks fine? Calls break up and file copies stall. Then the tickets arrive, each one some version of "the network is slow." It's rarely one broken device. A WAN link maxes out for an hour with voice packets queued behind a backup job. Last week's config change hasn't been linked to any of it yet. Network optimization sorts this out one measured step at a time, starting with performance monitoring.
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Cloud Networking 101 | Holly Podbielak | Megaport Connect 2026

Oct 28, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Cloud has transformed networking. This session explores the fundamentals of cloud networking, including software-defined infrastructure, automation, APIs, infrastructure as code, and cloud connectivity, providing a practical foundation for modern network engineers. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Holly Podbielak, Solutions Consultant, Palo Alto Networks.
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8 Best Wireless Network Solutions to Monitor Wi-Fi in 2026

Oct 28, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
If your Wi-Fi keeps slowing down or dropping connections, checking whether your access points are online won't tell you much. You need to know what's causing the problem, whether it's weak signal strength, overloaded access points, or too many connected devices. Wireless network monitoring tools help you track these issues, monitor access point health, and spot problems before they affect more users.
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motadata

What Is Squid Proxy and How to Keep It Fast, Secure and Observable

Oct 28, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How long does it take your service desk to rule the proxy in or out when a user says a site won't load? The proxy carries every outbound web request in most companies, and it still tends to be checked last. So service desks guess, even though the proxy has already logged what happened to that request. For a lot of those companies, the proxy is Squid. It has cached pages and enforced web policy for close to three decades, and it logs every request it touches.
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Demystifying NODE

Oct 28, 2026 By Idan Green In Broadcom
Having spent significant time working with the Network Observability Deployment Engine (NODE), I can confidently say that modernizing network observability does not have to feel like black magic. NODE simplifies how we deploy, scale, and manage complex network observability environments. Whether you're working with Kubernetes for the first time or streamlining an enterprise monitoring stack, NODE brings structure and clarity to the setup process. At its core, NODE relies on two main building blocks.
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The Full Stack Network (And Everything We Broke Along the Way) | Richard Olson | Megaport Connect

Oct 28, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
What does it take to build a global hybrid multicloud network? Richard Olson, Tech Lead at Canva, shares the architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons learned scaling infrastructure across clouds, regions, and bare metal at global scale. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Richard Olson, Tech Lead (Networking and Compute), Canva.
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Building Secure Hybrid Multicloud Architectures | Jeremiah Johnson | Megaport Connect 2026

Oct 28, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
As infrastructure expands across clouds, data centers, and the edge, complexity grows. This session explores practical strategies for designing secure, scalable multicloud architectures that balance performance, governance, connectivity, and operational simplicity. Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026. Chicago | Thursday 22 October ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Jeremiah Johnson, US Cloud Engineering Manager, Fortinet.
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onpage

6 Best Agentic NOC Platforms in 2026: AI Investigation, Network Automation, and Incident Response

Oct 27, 2026 By Ritika Bramhe In OnPage
Quick Summary: NetBrain is our lead pick for enterprise teams evaluating agentic network operations because it combines live network context, AI-assisted investigation, and governed workflows across multi-vendor infrastructure. Other platforms worth considering include Cisco AgenticOps, HPE Juniper Mist with Marvis AI, IBM Network Intelligence, Arista AVA, and Nokia Network Services Platform. Disclosure: This guide is published by OnPage, a provider of incident alerting and on-call management software.
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What Is Continuous Data Protection and How Can You Achieve It?

Oct 27, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Learn what continuous data protection is, how it reduces data loss, and how it supports lower recovery point objectives. Table of Contents A backup can complete exactly as scheduled and still leave you with more data loss than your business can tolerate. Imagine this scenario. Your business database is backed up at midnight every night – but one afternoon, it fails at 4 p.m. Everything written in the 16 hours leading up to this failure falls outside your latest recovery point.
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motadata

What Network Infrastructure Management Involves and How It Keeps Every Site Running

Oct 27, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does the help desk still hear about network problems before the network engineers do, even with every router and switch under monitoring? In most cases the alert does its job, and the hours go into what comes after it. Tracking down who last touched the config takes time, and so does checking the switch's vendor support and how close that branch link is to capacity. Networks also no longer behave like a single system.
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NOC Monitoring: What a Network Operations Center Tracks and How

Oct 26, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
NOC monitoring decides how fast a network problem turns into a fix. If your NOC watches the wrong layers, it misses the fault. If it alerts on everything, the real fault gets buried. According to Uptime Institute's Annual Outage Analysis 2026, 57% of operators said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000. Most teams already collect plenty of data through network monitoring. The hard part is turning that data into a short queue of alerts that the right person acts on.
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obkio

Why Is My Internet Slow at Night? 6 Causes and Fixes

Oct 23, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Your connection holds up all day. Then, in the evening, video calls start to stutter, pages take longer to load, and file uploads slow to a crawl. By the next morning, everything is back to normal, so any test you run during the day comes back clean. For a business, that pattern shows up in a few ways. A remote employee can’t get through an evening call. A branch office’s nightly backup never finishes.
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AWS Interconnect Is Coming to Megaport

Oct 22, 2026 By Chris Cabel In Megaport
AWS Interconnect is coming to Megaport, giving enterprises and AI infrastructure providers another way to scale private AWS connectivity with automation, encryption, and built-in resilience. Megaport customers just got a new AWS connectivity option, and it fits perfectly with how we’ve always believed infrastructure should work: direct, automated, resilient, and easier to operate.
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The Office Network Passed Its Speed Test. Then Everyone Came to Work

The Office Network Passed Its Speed Test. Then Everyone Came to Work

Oct 22, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The IT crew wrapped up the office network install on a Friday afternoon. Internet was live. Switches hummed in the cabinet. A laptop parked beside an access point pulled a clean 940 Mbps down and a respectable upload to match. Everyone went home satisfied. Monday morning told a different story. By 9:20, the complaints rolled in. Video calls froze mid-sentence. Wi-Fi dropped in the east corridor. Finance couldn't reach the shared drive. Nothing in the Friday test predicted any of it.
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Teneo

How to Troubleshoot Intermittent Network Issues After They Happen

Oct 21, 2026 By Teneo In Teneo
One of the most frustrating challenges I faced as a network engineer was troubleshooting problems that had already disappeared. A user would call and report that an application was performing terribly. A site would become unusable for several minutes. Voice calls would break up. File transfers would suddenly slow to a crawl. Then, by the time I started investigating, everything would be working normally again.
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HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects against PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)

Oct 21, 2026 By Frank Mancina In HAProxy
On October 20th, 2026, the PHP Security Team issued an advanced notice and security advisory disclosing two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2, affecting PHP installations.
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obkio

Why Does My Internet Keep Disconnecting? Causes, Diagnosis & Fixes

Oct 20, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Your Internet usually keeps disconnecting because of one of five things: a weak or congested Wi-Fi signal, a failing modem, router or cable, an overloaded firewall, a device-level setting or driver, or a problem on your ISP’s line or network. To fix it, first find where the drop happens: on one device, across your LAN, or past your firewall. “The Internet keeps droppin” is one of the most common tickets IT teams get, and one of the hardest to close.
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SNMP Traps as Logs and Network Troubleshooting | Logs for Lunch

Oct 19, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
SNMP traps as logs, AI log anomaly detection, and network troubleshooting are the focus of Logs for Lunch: August 2026, for network and IT ops teams and LogicMonitor users. Tom Chavez introduces LM Logs, which keeps logs and metrics together. Cameron Compton troubleshoots dropped tunnel packets from a network operations dashboard, and Ron Scinta ingests SNMP traps through the Collector. Patrick Sites and Kerry DeVilbiss answer questions on load balancing, OTel and Cribl forwarding, MSP log sources, and search performance.
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How SGP.32 unlocks next-generation IoT deployments

Oct 19, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
Every time a smart utility meter transmits consumption data, a connected vehicle updates its telemetry, or a fleet of logistics trackers crosses international borders, seamless and uninterrupted connectivity is vital. Yet for years, managing Internet of Things (IoT) devices at scale has been constrained by physical SIM logistics, operator lock-in and remote SIM provisioning standards that were simply never built for autonomous, resource-constrained hardware.
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The Auvik Spring 2026 roadmap

Oct 19, 2026 By Glenn Gray In Auvik
Our Spring 2026 product roadmap is built around the idea that AI network management should start with what’s actually happening on your network, not a blank prompt. Over the past six months we’ve built Auvik AI into alerting, troubleshooting, the remote terminal, and Command Runner. We’ve also added, faster fixes for servers and workstations, and a ServiceNow CMDB integration. We walked through all of this, plus what’s coming next, in our Spring 2026 roadmap webinar.
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obkio

Internet Is Lagging? How to Find the Cause and Fix It

Oct 19, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
The speed test shows 500 Mbps. Yet Microsoft Teams calls keep turning into people talking over each other, the CRM pauses on every click, and remote employees are opening tickets because the Internet is lagging. Nothing looks broken, which is exactly what makes lag so hard to troubleshoot. Why is my Internet lagging? If your Internet is lagging, your connection is slow to respond, not necessarily slow to download.
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How to Build an Office Network That Can Handle Business Growth

How to Build an Office Network That Can Handle Business Growth

Oct 15, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A video call freezes mid-sentence. Just for a second. Everyone waits, then carries on as if nothing happened. A week later, a new hire cannot get her laptop online in the small meeting room. She tries the next room. It works there. Nobody calls it a network problem. Not yet. It is just one of those things. Then it adds up. Two more people join. Someone plugs a printer into whatever port was free. The guest WiFi quietly starts carrying half the office because the main network keeps dropping. None of this was planned. It drifted.
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obkio

ISP Throttling: How to Tell If Your ISP Is Throttling You and What to Do About It

Oct 14, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Your connection is fine in the morning and crawls every afternoon. Or video calls stutter while everything else loads normally. Either pattern could be ISP throttling. It could also be network congestion, or a problem inside your own network. ISP throttling is when your internet service provider intentionally slows your connection based on how much data you use, the type of traffic you send, the time of day, or the plan you’re on. Knowing throttling exists is the easy part. Proving it is harder.
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motadata

WAN Link Monitoring for Faster Branch Troubleshooting

Oct 13, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why do users at a branch complain about choppy calls and stalled apps when every WAN circuit on the dashboard still shows up? A link can be reachable without being healthy. Delay and packet loss can rise for hours on a live circuit, and a simple up-or-down check will report nothing unusual the whole time. WAN link monitoring checks the quality of each site-to-site connection by having routers send their own test packets and time the replies.
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whatsup gold

SFTP vs TFTP: Differences and Security

Oct 13, 2026 By Greg Collins In WhatsUp Gold
SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), also known as Secure File Transfer Protocol, and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) have similar acronyms but have two different jobs. Choose SFTP for sensitive files, routed or untrusted networks, authenticated automation, partner exchange and remote file management. Reserve TFTP for constrained bootstrapping or device-transfer workflows on a tightly controlled network when the endpoint requires a minimal design.
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The Business Side of Observability: Ramazan Karadavut on Customer Value and SolarWinds

Oct 13, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Ramazan Karadavut, Founder & Senior Architect at Consolit, to discuss his 20-year journey with SolarWinds and the power of end-to-end IT management. We explore real-world enterprise use cases, including monitoring large-scale banking networks across 10,000+ branches, and thousands of ATMs. We will also explore why moving beyond basic alerting into inventory management, change management, and investment reporting is essential for complex environments.
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Why 40% of Your Engineering Budget is Completely Wasted

Oct 13, 2026 By ValueOps by Broadcom In Broadcom
Is up to 40% of your engineering capacity trapped just maintaining legacy systems while leadership demands an AI-first roadmap? Discover how Infrastructure Portfolio Management through Clarity by Broadcom (part of ValueOps) allows enterprises to reclaim trapped infrastructure capacity and redirect resources toward AI innovation. By connecting cores and clusters directly to measurable business outcomes, VCF Advanced Infrastructure Portfolio Management transforms your private cloud into a self-funding engine.
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obkio

New in Obkio: Share Your Network Diagnosis and Show Your ISP Exactly What's Wrong

Oct 13, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
You know the conversation. Calls are choppy, users are complaining, and Obkio shows packet loss on the path to your ISP. You open a ticket, and they reply, "Everything looks fine on our end." Now you're stuck taking screenshots, exporting graphs, and trying to explain data to someone who can't see it. Meanwhile, the problem keeps happening. Today we're launching Shareable Links. With one click, you can create a read-only link to any Network Monitoring Session and send it to anyone.
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obkio

How to Fix Packet Loss: Step-by-Step Troubleshooting Guide

Oct 12, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Packet loss rarely shows up as packet loss. Users report choppy Teams calls, frozen screen shares, slow SaaS apps, or a connection that feels unstable. By the time the ticket reaches IT, the issue has often cleared. Even small amounts of loss degrade real-time traffic. And because TCP retransmits every lost packet, sustained loss also cuts throughput for everything else on the link. Packet loss happens when data packets fail to reach their destination.
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obkio

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

Oct 9, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
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.
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motadata

7 Best Network Sniffing Tools for 2026

Oct 8, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
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.
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Capacity Planning Under Constraints: An Off-Grid Analogy for Edge Deployments

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

Oct 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
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.
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How Modern Firewalls Help Businesses Strengthen Network Security

How Modern Firewalls Help Businesses Strengthen Network Security

Oct 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
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.
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Air-Gapped vs Private Network Backup: Which Is More Secure?

Oct 7, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
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.
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motadata

8 Best Network Diagnostic Tools for 2026

Oct 7, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
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.
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How to Say No: Protecting Your Bandwidth

Oct 6, 2026 By NinjaOne In NinjaOne
In IT, you’re pulled in a hundred different directions, sometimes those directions completely conflicting others. And when you finally fix one problem, another pops up in its place, like a technological whack-a-mole. So what do you do if you find yourself stuck in a tough spot? Your first inclination may be to fix the problem. After all, you’re a fixer by nature, so you should be able to take care of it all… right?
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How Agentic AI Could Change Global Network Deployment

Oct 5, 2026 By Serena Toh In Megaport
From the Alibaba Cloud Apsara Conference stage, here's a look at how Agentic AI, APIs, and NaaS could simplify network deployment and automate routing decisions. At this year’s Alibaba Cloud Apsara Conference in China, I was honored to represent Megaport on stage to present our live demo session “Alibaba Cloud × Megaport: Making Agentic Networks Simpler”.
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File, object, or block storage: what's the difference?

Oct 5, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Choosing where your data lives is only half the question. How it's stored matters too. File, object, and block storage are each built for a different job. File storage uses the hierarchy you already know. Files live inside folders, and those folders can live inside other folders. Object storage gets rid of that hierarchy. Each piece of data is stored as its own object, which makes it easy to scale.
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A Conversation with Russell Rosa, Nable's Chief Revenue Officer | Fireside Chat

Oct 5, 2026 By N-able In N-able
Meet Russell Rosa, N-able's Chief Revenue Officer, in this open fireside chat recorded live on October 2, 2026. Russell joined N-able in July 2026 with more than 25 years of experience across global sales, technology, and channel-led growth. In this AMA-style conversation, he shares why he joined N-able, the experiences that shaped his approach to leadership, and where he sees the technology landscape heading.
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obkio

What Is Network Diagnostics? Manual vs. Automatic Diagnosis

Oct 2, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Network diagnostics is the process of finding out why a network performance issue is happening: what's causing it, where and when it occurred, and who needs to fix it. It's the step between an alert telling you something is wrong and a fix being applied. For most IT teams, it's also the slowest part of resolving a network issue.
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Building Production-ready AI Infrastructure? Start With the Network

Oct 2, 2026 By Kevin Dresser In Megaport
AI workloads depend on fast, secure, and scalable access to data across on-premises systems, colocation, cloud platforms, and GPU environments. Here’s how private connectivity can help enterprises move from AI proof of concept to production-ready infrastructure. AI pilots tend to be forgiving. Production isn’t. In the early stages, a team can usually get by with a simple path into a GPU environment, enough bandwidth to test an idea, and a security model that suits a limited group of users.
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Patch Management Masterclass: From Exposure to Verified Remediation

Oct 1, 2026 By N-able In N-able
Patching has become a race against time. As cyberthreats move from disclosure to exploitation faster than ever, IT and security teams need a smarter approach to vulnerability remediation. Watch this Patch Management Masterclass to learn how to build a risk-based patching strategy, streamline patch management across Windows, macOS, Linux, and third-party applications, and implement a closed-loop remediation process that verifies issues are resolved.
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megaport

Megaport Advanced Services: From Network Design to Deployment

Oct 1, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Network changes often stall after the design is done. See how Megaport Advanced Services helps teams move from planning to implementation and support. Ask a network team where their last big network change got stuck and you’ll rarely hear “we couldn’t work out the design.” The completed design is usually sitting in a document somewhere, reviewed and signed off. What stalls is everything needed after that. Somebody has to write the runbook. Somebody has to sit in the 2 a.m.
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obkio

How to Fix Intermittent Internet Issues: Is It Your Network or Your ISP?

Oct 1, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Your Internet circuit is up. The firewall shows the WAN link as connected, your ISP's status page is green, and a speed test comes back at full provisioned bandwidth. Meanwhile, Teams calls at one branch break up for ten minutes every afternoon, and every user at that site sees Salesforce slow to a crawl at the same moment. Then everything recovers before anyone can capture it.
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How Hybrid WAN Is Transforming Enterprise Network Connectivity

How Hybrid WAN Is Transforming Enterprise Network Connectivity

Oct 1, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Enterprise networks are evolving as businesses adopt cloud applications, remote work, distributed offices, and connected devices. A hybrid WAN solution can help organizations combine different connectivity options while supporting the performance, reliability, and flexibility required by modern business operations.
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