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Performance Benchmarking: Bun vs. C# vs. Go vs. Node.js vs. Python
I took 5 runtimes and built functionally identical REST APIs with each of them. Then I ran load tests for each application to measure their performance.
PAN-OS and EDLs - Everything You Wanted to Know about External Dynamic Lists
Looking to implement external dynamic lists in your Palo Alto NGFW or Prisma Access? This post will answer all your questions about how EDLs work in PAN-OS to dynamically improve your security posture.
From Edge to Core: Securing AI Infrastructure with WWT's ARMOR Framework & NVIDIA BlueField-4
As AI transforms the enterprise landscape, infrastructure must advance to meet demands for performance, security, scalability and resilience. At NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C., 2025, the launch of NVIDIA BlueField-4 marks a pivotal moment in infrastructure innovation. With 6x the compute power of NVIDIA BlueField-3 and 800 Gb/s throughput, BlueField-4 is engineered for gigascale AI factories, enabling secure, high-performance computing from the edge to the core.
The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand
This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
Introduction to XQL: Writing Your First Query
Learning a new programming or query language can be daunting, but if you've used the boolean options in a web search engine before, you can master XQL queries in no time. Like with web searches, we start with a hypothesis of our search, add filters to limit our results, and then validate the results that are returned against our hypothesis.
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Seeing the Firewall Clearly: Policy Insights That Actually Matter
Firewall policies grow quickly and rarely shrink, leaving rulebases cluttered, risky, and audit-heavy. Check Point Policy Insights turns policy and traffic data into continuous, actionable intelligence. It identifies unused, overlapping, and overly permissive rules, supports framework-aligned audits, and enables fast, governed cleanup directly in SmartConsole—automating work that once took days and proving why Check Point management stands out.
Milan 2026: Securing the Upcoming Winter Games in an Age of Hyper-Connectivity and AI-Driven Chaos
The expanding digital ecosystem of the Winter Games demands identity-first, AI-aware security heading into Milan 2026.
Security Group Tags or Adaptive Policies: Which is Right for your Network?
Cloud-managed networking is changing how enterprises design, secure and operate their networks. This post explores modern assurance models, Zero Trust policy approaches, and how platforms like Meraki and Catalyst align with different operational realities.
Regulatory Uncertainty Drives New Business Models for Healthcare
Rapid regulatory and reimbursement shifts are forcing healthcare leaders to rethink care delivery, partnerships and operating models for 2026.
Integrating Dataminr into a Palo Alto Networks–Centric Platform
Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk integrates external real-time intelligence into Palo Alto Networks' platform, enabling security teams to act on early warning signals before threats impact internal systems. This approach shifts security from reactive to prevention-based by leveraging AI-analyzed data from over a million public sources to detect risks outside organizational perimeters.
Comprehensive Guide to OWASP Top 10: Web Applications, APIs and Automated Threats
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) provides industry-standard frameworks for identifying and mitigating the most critical security risks facing modern applications. This guide explores three critical OWASP initiatives and maps F5's Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions to each threat category.
What You'll Learn:
* OWASP Web Application Security Top 10 (2021)
* OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023)
* OWASP Automated Threats to Web Applications (21 threat types)
* How F5 solutions protect against each threat category
* Hands-on lab exercises to practice defense techniques
Securing Your Cyber Vault: How Observability and NDR Turn Blind Spots into Confidence
Cyber vaults are your last line of defense against ransomware—but are they truly secure? Learn how WWT and ExtraHop RevealX deliver real-time visibility and assurance through Network Detection & Response (NDR), so you can recover with confidence when it matters most.
A Quick look at QUIC
Learn about QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connection), a modern transport protocol that enhances internet speed, security and reliability by building on UDP. It integrates TLS 1.3 for faster handshakes, employs BBR for smarter congestion control, and uses multiplexed streams to eliminate head-of-line blocking. Seamless connection migration ensures uninterrupted connectivity, making QUIC a promising successor to TCP.
Purpose in the Age of Agentic AI: Takeaways from UVA's Conference on Ethical AI in Business
The University of Virginia's third-annual conference on Ethical AI in Business was hosted by the Darden School of Business and organized by the LaCross AI Institute.
Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
The traditional enterprise data warehouse is evolving rather than becoming obsolete, adapting its role alongside advancements in AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). These AI capabilities enable direct analytical operations on diverse data types, challenging the need for all data to be centralized and conformed in a warehouse.
Harness the Power of Azure with NGINXaaS – Advanced Load Balancing and API Gateway
This blog explains how modern, API-driven applications demand cloud-native security and highlights how F5 NGINXaaS for Azure delivers a fully managed, high-performance WAF to protect them. It outlines key capabilities such as OWASP Top 10 defenses, API security, DevSecOps integration and Azure-native observability, helping enterprises secure apps and APIs without hardware or operational overhead.
What is Fault-Managed Power and Why is it Gaining Momentum?
As digital buildings evolve, traditional power models falter. Fault-Managed Power Systems (FMPS) offer a transformative solution that merges high-power delivery with active fault management. This approach enhances safety, simplifies installation and supports scalable infrastructure, aligning power management with modern network practices for diverse applications, from edge devices to outdoor venues.
AI as Strategy: What CEOs and Boards Must Get Right in 2026
AI is now a core driver of productivity, margin expansion and EPS growth. Fortune 100 CEOs and Boards must elevate AI to a strategic priority, enforce governance, focus on ROI, build talent readiness, and embed responsible practices to stay competitive and agile in 2026. Leaders who act decisively will outperform; those who delay risk falling behind.
Edwin AI Tested Under Production Conditions in WWT's Advanced Technology Center
LogicMonitor's Edwin AI, integrated into WWT's Advanced Technology Center, offers enterprises a production-grade environment to test agentic AIOps. By simulating complex failure scenarios, teams can measure improvements in MTTR, uptime and alert volume, accelerating evaluation cycles and validating AI-driven workflows before live deployment.
How AI Lets Developers Tackle Unfamiliar Challenges with Confidence
AI coding assistants revolutionize software development by accelerating complex tasks and fostering innovation. This post explores a team's journey from digitizing static data to building APIs, highlighting AI's role in enhancing efficiency and confidence. The real transformation lies in embracing change, experimenting boldly and redefining what's possible in development.
Priority Flow Control: The Stop Light of the AI Networking Highway
Priority Flow Control (PFC) acts like a traffic light, pausing specific data flows to prevent congestion and data loss in AI networks. By enabling lossless Ethernet fabrics, PFC enhances performance in AI workloads, crucial for applications like RDMA. Explore its implementation across various networking hardware for optimal network efficiency.
The New Era with Agentic SOC
Modern SOC architectures are evolving beyond monolithic SIEMs, which struggle with rising telemetry and attacker complexity. New technologies like Security Data Pipeline Platforms (SDPP) and Generative AI are enabling the Agentic SOC, where enrichment, storage, detection and triage operate as independent layers—creating a more scalable, flexible and sustainable security operations model.
Healthcare Insights for 2026
As healthcare leaders look toward 2026, the industry finds itself at a familiar crossroads—one defined by resilience, reinvention and rising expectations. After years of cost-cutting, clinician and staff burnout, and regulatory volatility, healthcare leaders recognize that future success requires reimagining core business models and organizational change.
Network Digital Twin Tools Comparison
A brief comparison of three players in the network digital twin market: NetBrain, IP Fabric and Forward Networks. This blog compares these solutions and lays out functionality, strengths and key applications side-by-side
Introducing VQ Licensing To Support Cisco Unified Communications
Microsoft Teams has become the de facto meeting platform for unclassified calls across the US Army. There's good news coming for anyone who joins Teams meetings via Cisco in-room video devices, since there will soon be support for native Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) on these Cisco endpoints. To benefit from MTR o n your Cisco video devices, you will need to start preparing today, ahead of its release in DoD environments. This blog explains what's coming, why it's great news for the US Army, and what you need to do now.