GOVERNMENT DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ENHANCES ABILITY TO DETECT AND DEFLECT INTRUDERS CHALLENGE The defense department of a national government with heightened sensitivity to internal and external military threats had the need to improve traffic management on their secure networks. Given the operational environment, the department required continual deep visibility into their networks to detect and ward off attacks. The asymmetrical nature of cyberwarfare favors the attacker, who can do significant damage with a 1 percent success rate, while the defender must repel 100 percent of the attacks in this high-stakes game. The ubiquitous command-line interface commonly used by many network engineers was cumbersome and restricted visibility to the device and port level, much too granular a vie

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