Building an attractive, efficient, and popular website is no easy task and the build isn't over when the website goes live. Modern Security/IT Teams, Marketing Teams, and Webmasters need to be aware that bots lurk around every corner, looking to infiltrate a website, alter their stats, distort performance metrics, steal data, and garner important information for another website or company's gain. Bad bots are a common problem, and there are several that can legitimately ruin your website. Learn about these …

IT managers have a nearly impossible job. They must understand, manage, and secure the network all the time against all problems. Anything less than a 100 percent working network is a failure. So you can't don't let the details prevent you from seeing the big picture. But what if the details are the big picture? The use of test access ports (taps) optimizes both network and personnel resources. Read this solution brief to learn how taps are used to help IT groups easily and passively monitor all network data.