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can 2019 automatically An army doesn’t go into combat with- important, as they July www.AmericanSecurityToday.com - Edition 35 scan for and alert managers to potential out the right weaponry. intrusions. Therefore, it’s important to arm securi- ty managers with an array of tools that But agencies that employ hybrid IT en- can be used to effectively mitigate cyber vironments—where some applications exist on-premises while others are host- threats. ed in the public cloud—should go beyond Firewalls are, of course, critical, but can traditional network monitoring and be ineffective if data exfiltration occurs employ methods that monitor data as it over domain name server traffic. passes between their cloud provider and in-house data center. Agencies need a more robust suite of solutions and strategies for detecting There are other policies and proce- dures that agencies should consider both external and internal threats. Network monitoring technologies are implementing. (Learn more about the latest network management feature updates in SolarWinds® Network Perfor- mance Monitor, Network Configuration Manager, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, VoIP & Network Quality Manager, IP Address Manager, Orion® Platform, and Orion Maps.) 48

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