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Various data protection laws exist worldwide. The most notable include the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the U.S. California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). These have become key compliance issues for service providers with a business presence in these locations, even if they do not have a physical...

Remote sites come in many formats—from research clinics to warehouses to branch banks and more. These sites are critical to organizations; whether they help create life-saving drugs, transport essential goods, or enable important financial transactions, they keep businesses up and running from across the globe...

Fixed wireless access (FWA) technology is accelerating the close of the digital divide in urban areas and underserved communities by allowing communications service providers (CSPs) to bring high-speed internet services to households and businesses. Through interconnecting technologies, FWA helps carriers manage...

NETSCOUT is pleased to announce it has again been recognized as an industry disruptor and innovator with the 2024 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the innovative vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous pacesetters...

Special thanks to Julia Rehse, who came to the NETSCOUT family as an intern, for her exceptional work co-authoring this blog. She is returning to Germany in June and will absolutely be missed. Thank you, Julia. A few seconds of downtime can cost organizations hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. In healthcare...

Unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) tools are essential for most modern enterprises in today’s highly connected business environments. When those applications don’t work or don’t work well, that’s a big problem for IT help desk teams responsible for resolving issues quickly. Over the course of the last few...

Industry analysts are coming to grips with the fact that due to today’s growing frequency (e.g., 6.4 million attacks in 2H 2023), size (1.1Tbps), and complexity of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a multilayer hybrid defense strategy has become a requirement. Furthermore, due to the creation of new attack...

Listen to an RCRWireless News podcast with Greg Mayo, senior director of engineering at NETSCOUT, discussing the progress of 5G deployments in terms of successes and areas for improvement after five 5 years in what typically is a 10-year technology-generation cycle. Mayo speaks to what the next half of the 5G evolution...

Data protection laws, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the U.S. California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), have become a compliance focal point for organizations worldwide. These types of laws are paramount in regulating the processing of personal data and have driven significant changes in...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published its “ Network Management Megatrends 2024” report with a focus on skills gaps, hybrid and multicloud, secure access service edge (SASE), and AI-driven operations. Since 2008, EMA has been surveying IT professionals to track and trend their approaches to managing...

Special thanks to Steven Cacciaroni, Director of Business Development for Palo Alto Networks, and Faisal Pias, Partner Solutions Architect AWS for their collaboration in co-authoring this blog. Introduction Financial services institutions (FSIs) are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to improve scalability...

The only thing more frustrating than a slow network connection is a dropped voice call. Both of these issues were plaguing a major bank, directly impacting the quality of its customer service, which in turn threatened to damage the bank’s reputation. Due to the complex landscape of voice and video connectivity, which...

Supporting enterprise business growth requires high-level performance in several areas of the business—sales, manufacturing, and customer service, as well as the corporate IT network and applications. A clear and robust network and application performance management and visibility strategy helps ensure the technology...

Recently, NETSCOUT's Chief Solutions Architect Richard Fulwiler joined Heavy Reading's Principal Analyst Ruth Brown for an informative session aimed at exploring the changing 5G landscape and how the resulting increase in network complexity is driving demand for lower latency, higher bandwidth, and ultrareliable...

In the modern digital landscape, financial services institutions (FSIs) are prime targets for cybersecurity threats. These threats are inflated as critical data and applications are migrated to the cloud. NETSCOUT is among the network security experts that strongly encourage FSIs to implement the zero trust security...

Network X Americas' "Investment, Innovation & Disruption: Telco Reinvented" event is coming to the Irving, Texas convention center May 21-23 this year, bringing the vendor and telco operator community together to share the latest on 5G technology, including the latest developments in network slicing. Beyond the Hurdles...

Corporations have long balanced the use of both capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) to fund information technology (IT) projects and day-to-day operations. In a more simplified time, the addition of networking switches, routers, servers, and storage was, in large part, funded by CapEx dollars...

With financial services institutions (FSIs) migrating more and more workloads to the cloud to improve scalability, agility, and cost efficiency, the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) is paramount. This makes adhering to strict regulatory requirements surrounding workload security a top priority...

NETSCOUT’s biannual DDoS Threat Intelligence Report dissects trends and attack methodologies adversaries use against service providers, enterprises, and end users. The information cited in the report is gathered from NETSCOUT’s unparalleled internet visibility at a global scale, collecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and...

The exponential growth of enterprise tools—from unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) to unified communications and collaboration as a service (UCaaS) and software as a service (SaaS)—has dramatically increased the job complexity of IT professionals responsible for ensuring network performance and security...