As threat actors get more sophisticated and aggressive campaigns become more commonplace, it is imperative that corporations step up their game. In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation, the resources for a holistic approach have never been more available. Enterprises are starting to recognize the need to modernize their security operations center (SOC) with an advanced SOC solution. Unfortunately, CISOs everywhere are finding it difficult to identify a partner dedicated enough to conduct their due diligence about customer needs, identify potential solutions on the market, and deliver the know-how to implement the best technical solutions. WEI can do that.

Legacy SOC architectures are complex with many interdependent tools and processes housed within them. Many current SOC’s were built 15 years ago when the threat landscape was very different and the threat actors being less capable. Today, these brittle and hard to maintain platforms struggle to deliver the response and resolution times that are required, which leads to SOC analyst burnout and disappointing outcomes. In an attempt to keep pace, corporations continue to try to hire their way out of this problem with little effect. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Don’t Make It A “People Problem’

There aren’t enough skilled security analysts on the planet to solve this problem. Analyst retention and burnout are very real problems. However, in what can only be described as a back-slide, many large consulting firms and Global Systems Integrators are doubling down on the “body shop” approach to security operations. For a few million bucks a year, they will set you up with a team of 30-40 tier 1 analysts to simply perform basic alert triage activities. Spending a fortune to maintain a 15-year-old model that is no longer effective doesn’t make much sense.

Forward-thinking organizations have begun to implement comprehensive automation strategies that fully automate Tier 1 activities and investigations. In many cases, much of the Tier 2 workload has been automated as well. This modern approach frees up their SOC and IR teams to focus on what is important – preventing critical incidents, hunting for threats proactively, and improving security posture.

The Modern SOC: Powered By Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Ideally, all small, medium and large enterprises have some formidable solution in place for monitoring, preventing, and responding to threats. Of course, the term “formidable” has a different connotation depending on the size of the business, the industry they operate in, the type of data they store, available resources, security culture, etc. But as larger businesses are increasingly shifting to a digitalized operating model, the need for a modern SOC becomes more apparent — just ask any SOC analyst about the benefits of automation and analytics.

This cloud-delivered integrated platform reduces the duration of time between detection (MTTD) and resolution (MTTR) through the help of cutting-edge AI and ML. It combines the key functions of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, UEBA, threat intelligence, and attack surface management — essentially putting the legacy architectures mentioned above out to cyber pasture. Think about it – the traditional approach to incident response is based on the detection of a breach and conducting a historical reconstruction and root cause investigation of how the event took place…then using that new understanding to improve controls to prevent the attack from happening again.

This approach begs a serious question: If you had collected all the data needed to perform this historical analysis and to reconstruct the attack, what prevented you from detecting these attack indicators in real-time and stopping them as they were happening? You had the data. What stopped you from actively preventing the attack? Legacy SOC’s were designed specifically to support the legacy, historical investigation approach. The modern SOC is focused on automated, rapid detection, and prevention.

Components of the modern SOC:

• Functions of SIEM, SOAR, TIM, ASM in a single or tightly integrated platform.
• A single, normalized data store.
• Prevention at the core. If you have an opportunity to prevent, take it!
• Automation as the foundation – not as a last step in the IR process.
• Embedded analytics, AI, and ML models – natively provided.
• Collection of good, useful data from the network, endpoint, cloud, and user info.
• Automatic incorporation of natively provided and third-party threat intelligence.
• Profiling of device, user, and network behavior to detect anomalies.
• Case management and automated incident creation.

What are the results a customer can expect in a cloud-delivered integrated SOC platform? The key functions of SIEM, endpoint security, threat intelligence, XDR, attack surface management, UEBA, SOAR and CDR collectively offer:

• Dramatically reduced MTTD and MTTR
• Improved analyst experience by eliminating silos
• Enhanced detection of advanced attacks
• Simplified data onboarding & integration
• Accelerated investigations with intelligent alert grouping
• Reduced risk with attack surface management
• Automated response suggestions for incidents
• Extended security operations to the cloud for comprehensive visibility

AI/ML-powered SOC tools address the challenges of traditional SOC. For example, AI/ML can be used to automate many of the manual tasks that are currently performed by overburdened SOC analysts, such as alert triage and incident investigation. This frees analysts to focus on more complex tasks and improves the overall efficiency of the SOC. Personnel also experience improved visibility into their environment, including assets and data that were previously invisible. The result is detecting and responding to threats quickly and effectively.

Lastly, there is the development of new detection methods. AI/ML can be used to develop new detection methods that are more effective against new and emerging threats. AI/ML learns from historical data to identify patterns and anomalies that are otherwise difficult for human analysts to detect. It is clear why leaders are eager for an advanced SOC solution, in addition to the usual NGFW and remote access solutions. If an advanced SOC stack is too much too fast, there is SOCaaS, which WEI supports very well.

WEI’s Ongoing Mission To Deliver Premier Cybersecurity Solutions

Bottom line, WEI’s cybersecurity vision is to effectively deliver advanced solutions to help customers meet/exceed business objectives. So often, the WEI security team enters a project where serious voids are left behind by a customer’s tone-deaf partners. This is a result of partners “registering” every vendor within a given cyber category for every customer project, whether that is necessary or not. This leaves the customer with zero meaningful guidance. Still, the partner wins and makes their margin. This is a scenario WEI avoids.

Looking Ahead

2024 is here and so is the SEC’s ground-breaking adoption of cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure by public companies Effective December 18, 2023, an Item 1.05 Form 8-K form will generally be due just four business days after a registrant determines that a cybersecurity incident is material. The security infrastructure of many large enterprises cannot support this required deadline. It is WEI’s job, as a value-added reseller, to educate customers about a better way to approach detection and response and enable them to meet these new reporting requirements.

Over the next year, WEI’s digital communications will feature a focus on cybersecurity. Content will dive into viable solution trends, prominently explain WEI’s security capabilities, and provide WEI’s take on the solutions its valued partners offer. This also includes a recap of the numerous events the cyber team will coordinate and attend.

For any questions about WEI’s robust cybersecurity practice or to discuss WEI’s next-gen solutions, please contact WEI here.

Next Steps: Following a cyber incident, cybersecurity teams often resort to their data sources to identify how the incident transpired. While analyzing these data sources, a critical question must be asked – what prevented cyber personnel from stopping the cyberattack in real time? 

In this data-driven era, cybersecurity practices have increasingly focused on the prevention phase, made possible by leveraging the data already present in a cybersecurity environment. Prevention is your first line of defense, it is time to leverage its power and potential.

to learn more about this cloud-based, integrated SOC platform that includes best-in-class functions including EDR, XDR, SOAR, ASM, UEBA, TIP, and SIEM.

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Just as you rely on business-critical applications every day in the workplace, those same applications rely on a network that is available, scalable, and secure. But if an enterprise’s network architecture falls on the traditional side, this can complicate matters with the utilization of middleboxes like firewalls, load balancers, and tunnels for packet forwarding. This complexity comes with a high cost, hindering the deployment of new applications and creating challenges for intensive workloads like supporting video or connecting a widespread mobile workforce.

Many legacy networks lack the capability to operate on this session-based model, resulting in suboptimal networking. Despite efforts to secure networks, security breaches and cyberattacks persist, with predicted annual costs reaching . The traditional setup exposes businesses to sophisticated cyberattacks, incurring unacceptably high downtime costs. Fortunately, a solution is available to address both workloads and security issues in the enterprise network.

Addressing Network Performance With Session Smart Networking

Juniper Networks’ provides session-level intelligence and security to the network. This solution, built on an application-aware and zero-trust secure network fabric, meets enterprise requirements for performance, security, and availability.

, when integrated into an SD-WAN solution, enhances collaboration between the network and supported applications. It also connects users to exceptional experiences by dynamically charting waypoints across the network. This process constructs a streamlined and secure application-centric fabric, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of source users, network segments, and destination applications.

Utilizing AI To Boost Network Security

AI is a major topic worldwide, whether you are an IT professional or not. And with cybersecurity initiatives full steam ahead for many of the customers we serve, the convergence of these two areas is inevitable as next-gen security requires AI. The Juniper AI-Driven SD-WAN solution prioritizes security throughout the entire SD-WAN fabric to minimize exposure to evolving threats. This involves:

• Service-Centric Control Plane: Combine a service-centric control plane with a session-aware data plane to provide IP routing, policy management, client-to-cloud visibility, and proactive analytics.
• Zero Trust Models: These models offer the advanced design of the Session Smart Router, replacing the traditional routing plane with security principles at the core.
• Session Understanding: The Session Smart Router processes sessions – dedicated links between services, applications, users, and devices.
• Service-Centric Operation: Operating in a service-centric manner, Juniper models services for specific applications, granting access based on shared policies and validated templates.
• Granular Security Control: This intelligence enables granular security controls, assigning policies, QoS parameters, and access controls on a per-service, per-network basis.

Juniper’s AI-Driven SD-WAN not only addresses evolving threats, but also revolutionizes network security by integrating it seamlessly into the core of the network infrastructure.

Components Of Juniper Networks’ Zero Trust Model

Session Smart Networking relies on Zero Trust Security (ZTS) to ensure no packet is above suspicion. Juniper’s service-centric fabrics transition from legacy perimeter-based security to a zero-trust model incorporates the following components:

1. Zero Trust Routing Fabric: This session-oriented approach assumes no trust for users, traffic sources, or connected networks, regardless of location on the network. The Session Smart Router is deployed to establish zero trust and service-centric fabrics, where routes are transformed into directional firewall rules using a deny-all routing model. All routes and sessions undergo authentication, and session traffic is dynamically encrypted end-to-end.
2. Application-Centric Hypersegmentation: This feature categorizes user groups and devices into fine-grained per-service access policies using a global network data model. Hypersegmentation operates independently of overlay networks. This leverages the existing network infrastructure across public/private network boundaries, broadcast domains, and administrative boundaries.
3. Native Session Stateful Security Functions: The Session Smart Router simplifies branch and data center security architectures by natively supporting session L2-L7 stateful firewall functions, including NAT, encryption, VPN, and traffic filtering. The Advanced Security Pack enhances security with intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) and URL filtering.
4. Security Policy Automation and Scale: The solution centrally manages application-centric and user knowledge-based security policies, all expressed in the language of business. This results in automated and simplified network security policy management, reducing security operational expenses and overall risks associated with user error. The management system is scalable across thousands of sites.
5. Secure Edge Functionality: protects web, SaaS, and on-premises applications and is integrated with AI-Driven SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) functionality. Secure Edge connectors facilitate seamless integration with cloud-based security services such as Secure Edge, zScaler, and others.

Final Thoughts

In a world where cybersecurity threats are ever-present, Juniper’s Session Smart Router and AI-Driven SD-WAN sets a new standard for enterprise networking. The future of networking is not just about connectivity; it’s about building a secure, intelligent, and resilient foundation that empowers businesses to thrive in the digital era.

Contact our experts at WEI to learn more about Juniper Networks’ Session Smart Networking and AI-driven SD-WAN.

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• Why network infrastructure is a differentiator
• Challenge of improving remote experiences
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Just like many other industries embracing digital transformation, the healthcare sector is also on a transformative journey. Many local hospitals and clinics that were once buried in paperwork have hopped aboard the digital train via the cloud. This move is motivated by the goal of improving patient care, making patient information easier to access by patients and their families, enhancing treatment outcomes, and streamlining business operations.

Unfortunately, streamlining networks, effectively investing into the cloud, enhancing security, and integrating AI pose distinct challenges for the already busy healthcare sector. alleviates those worries so healthcare workers can focus more on their patients than their computers.

Juniper Network’s Five-Point SD-WAN Strategy

Juniper Network’s AI-powered SD-WAN, utilizing the Juniper Session Smart Router and Mist AI, enhances software-defined WAN capabilities for advanced healthcare networks. It handles edge traffic, optimizing performance and cost-effectiveness while eliminating the need for tunnels, thus meeting rigorous healthcare industry standards. This empowers healthcare organizations to expedite cloud migration, which improves operational efficiency for better patient care. These benefits span various digital healthcare applications, including:

• Cloud Services
• IoT Systems
• AI In Medicine
• Telehealth
• Smart Facility Management

1. Enhancing Healthcare Security And Compliance With A Cloud-Centric Solution

The adoption of public cloud for healthcare involved transmitting protected health information (PHI) over the internet, which posed major security risks. To comply with like HIPAA, HITECH, and GDPR, healthcare organizations are now embracing cloud-based security solutions to enhance data protection.

Juniper’s delivers security and hyper-segmentation without the traditional encryption protocols. This technology offers several features:

• Deny-All (Zero Trust) Routing implements a zero-trust approach for every network connection.
• URL Filtering blocks malicious websites and content.
• L3/L4 Denial-of-Service (DoS)/Distributed DoS (DDoS) Protection maintains system and service integrity in the event of cyberattacks.
• Payload Encryption protects data and other sensitive information during transmission.
• Network Address Translation (NAT) And VPN Functionality enable secure communication within the healthcare ecosystem.

Implementing these measures reduces data loss, mitigates malicious attacks, and boosts trustworthiness for both PHI and IT infrastructure.

2. Guaranteed Network Availability With AI-Driven SD-WAN

Network failures can disrupt patient-saving care and daily healthcare operations. Organizations are now turning to AI-driven SD-WAN to maintain uninterrupted access to critical applications during cloud migrations and mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) activities.

Juniper’s Mist AI ensures network availability through the following means:

• Traffic Steering optimizes data flow for healthcare applications.
• Session-Aware Routing operates at the network’s edge to reduce latency.
• Failover Protection redirects traffic through alternative paths in the event of a link failure or ISP outage.
• Service-Centric Routing simplifies migration of workloads to the cloud and the integration of networks during M&A activities, without service disruption or complex router configurations.

These features help healthcare organizations maintain critical application functionality and reduce disruptions. This is especially notable during an era where many healthcare organizations across the country are working through M&A

3. Optimizing Healthcare Experiences By Meeting SLAs

Efficient IT operations in healthcare improve service quality and user experience by intelligently managing traffic, maintaining service levels, and using AIOps for issue detection and resolution. Juniper Mist AI is leading the way to ensure service quality and user satisfaction through the following:

• Traffic Prioritization based on user application requirements. In healthcare, there are many clinical and non-clinical applications with varying degrees of requirements.
• Tunnel-Free Architecture for enhanced network visibility and efficient end-to-end session monitoring.
• WAN Assurance, which provides users with metrics to assess healthcare workers’ experiences.
• to deliver comprehensive insights for IT users to quickly identify and address issues.

4. Streamlining Healthcare Network Expansion

Expanding healthcare networks, especially during complex mergers and clinic location expansion, is a challenge. To enhance agility, healthcare organizations should prioritize cost-effective routing protocols and centralized network configurations.

With , IT operators can simply manage the entire network stack (wired, wireless, and WAN) from a single platform. This streamlined setup includes zero-touch provisioning and advanced templates for quick deployment at multiple sites and clouds – something WEI is very familiar with.

5. Maximizing Cost Efficiency

Cost containment in healthcare IT goes beyond saving money; it’s about future proofing. Juniper Network’s AI-powered SD-WAN streamlines network and cloud migrations, so organizations can enjoy cost savings and improved data transmission efficiency. In a time where ROI metrics are more pivotal than ever, IT teams can accurately forecast these savings for major cloud and network migrations. This translates well to other key stakeholders within a healthcare organization.

The resulting cost savings free up IT budgets for innovation, a vital aspect in an ever-evolving healthcare sector.

Final Thoughts

Juniper Network’s solution empowers healthcare IT leaders, delivering exceptional network experiences for clinicians, staff, and the patients they serve while simplifying operations and enhancing security. Thanks to Session Smart Router and Mist AI, it optimizes performance and cost-effectiveness, ensuring fast and secure data access and migration. This allows healthcare workers to focus on operational efficiency and top-quality patient care.

To dive deeper into Juniper Healthcare IT Networking, reach out to WEI and discover the future of healthcare network management.

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In the competitive world of technology, one of the biggest challenges for IT leaders is adapting to evolving tactics and changes in network connectivity. This is similar to professional sports, as offensive and defensive schemes often change during a season due to trending playbook wrinkles. Team leaders that deploy dated scheming eventually fall behind in on-field play and their win-loss record will reflect this. In the world of IT, outdated network architectures and middleware lead to more serious burdens with hindered device management and security. As a result, many enterprises can’t fully enjoy the benefits of cloud technologies and digital transformation.

Just as there are sports teams behind the curve, there are companies falling behind in the era of multi-cloud networks and hybrid architectures. These enterprises still rely on legacy network topologies, technologies, and middleware that served them well for more than a decade. Consequently, they are unable to fully exploit the benefits of their acquired cloud technologies. For instance, many organizations still rely on legacy hub-and-spoke networks that cannot accommodate the dynamic workloads and diverse data flows that dominate the modern enterprise. 

Other IT leaders are still relying on scattered VPN tunnels that are highly inflexible and reduce application performance. Many are also burdened with middleboxes, in the form of routers, firewalls, VPN appliances, etc. These elements require individual configurations and maintenance, adding to the workload of overwhelmed IT teams.

A New Game

IT leaders are searching for a new way of doing things. This includes routing traffic and robust security that doesn’t disrupt business operations. In this era of multi-cloud networks and hybrid architectures, Juniper’s provides a game-changing solution. The integrated service presents an entirely software-based platform to seamlessly merge with your existing setup, eliminating the need for complex and expensive forklift upgrades.

The Need For A Session Smart Network

With Juniper’s solution, your network becomes responsive and efficient, enabling seamless communication and data flow in your organization. This empowers your business to embrace cloud technologies, modernize your network infrastructure, and adapt to evolving challenges effortlessly.

Juniper Session Smart SD-WAN brings a plethora of benefits that can revolutionize your business and propel you ahead toward digital transformation. Here are some of the trending benefits that stood out for us:

1. Reduced Operational Expenses: Juniper Session Smart SD-WAN streamlines operations by minimizing labor-intensive tasks like manual configurations. As a result, companies enjoy significant cost savings.
2. Enhanced Network Structure: The platform facilitates easy access to SaaS-based applications through its efficient and effective network structure. Enterprises can then enjoy smoother and faster access to cloud-based services, enhancing overall productivity and user experience.
3. Streamlined Network Design: Juniper Session Smart SD-WAN offers an optimized solution for utilizing SaaS-based applications, ensuring data flows seamlessly and elevating the overall network performance. This opens the door to smoother and faster access to cloud-based services, improving efficiency and productivity across your entire network infrastructure.
4. Effortless Onboarding: The implementation process is quick and cost-effective. With zero-touch provisioning and an onboard process that automatically configures itself, your organization can seamlessly adapt to a new network setup.
5. Simplified Management: Network management is effortless with Juniper’s comprehensive LAN/WAN/SD-WAN solution, and the best part is all of it can be found in a single cloud platform. Their streamlined Wi-Fi points, switches, and SD-WAN gateway devices optimize resource allocation and empower your organization to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Juniper Session Smart takes routing to a new level by intelligently aligning workloads with session policies and network status, resulting in a 50% improvement in bandwidth utilization. Session Smart SD-WAN’s tunnel-free architecture ensures service-centered performance, simplified operations, and .

AI-Powered Network Assurance

Juniper AI WAN Assurance, powered by , is an extensive solution that brings real-time analytics, proactive anomaly identification, and swift issue resolution to your network.

Through continuous telemetry data collection and event correlation, Juniper SD-WAN directs sessions with performance and security SLAs in mind. This approach enhances network efficiency for an optimal user experience, making your business operations more productive and responsive.

Data from multiple sources, including Juniper Mist Access Points, Switches, Session Smart Routers, and Firewalls, provides end-to-end insight into user experiences. These devices work with Mist AI to optimize user experiences from client-to-cloud, covering tasks such as:

• Automated event correlation
• Root cause identification
• operations
• Network assurance
• Proactive anomaly detection

Additionally, – Juniper’s AI-driven virtual network assistant – empowers your team with deep insights and fast remediation for network teams. With Juniper AI WAN Assurance and Marvis’ assistance, your network gains real-time analytics. That way, your team can maximize network performance and address challenges proactively.

Final Thoughts

If your network is suffering from sluggishness and unresponsiveness due to outdated legacy architecture, it’s time for a game-changing move. With Juniper’s innovative solutions at your fingertips, you can bid farewell to the limitations of legacy systems and unlock the true potential of modern networking. Embrace Juniper’s Session Smart SD-WAN to revamp your network performance and ensure seamless responsiveness.

Speak with one of our experts at WEI to learn more about the power of Juniper’s Session Smart Network and AI-driven network assurance. We can provide valuable advice to empower your business with a more efficient and cost-effective network structure. Don’t let your network hold you back. Take charge and propel your business to new heights with Juniper’s Session Smart SD-WAN.

Next Steps: This white paper by WEI identifies how Juniper Networks’ location-based networking helps higher education institutes overcome complex technology challenges. Readers will better identify:

• Concerns of higher education IT professionals
• Why network infrastructure is a differentiator
• Challenge of improving remote experiences
• Value of a virtual network assistant

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Just as the AI-driven app on your smartphone navigates you to a new destination, IT leaders also believe there should be an AI-driven app that assists with managing a self-driving network. Well, turns out there is such an app available for that, and it is called , a recognized leader in AI for IT operations (AIOps).

Mist AI utilizes AI and machine learning (ML) to automate many of the meticulous tasks that are traditionally performed manually by network administrators. It goes one step further than automation, however, because it is also driven by the intelligence that allows it to proactively address network issues before they arise. It doesn’t take long to draw the similarities between Mist AI and the smartphone you are using to read this blog article:

• Just as a navigation app offers you the visibility to see accidents and traffic delays ahead of you, Mist AI provides insights into your network operations throughout your entire hybrid IT estate. Mist alerts you of potential problems and bottlenecks before they result in network outages.
• Like your smartphone, Juniper Mist maps your network traffic using the most efficient route to help ensure optimized workload performance.
• In similar fashion to your navigation app, Juniper Mist AI utilizes natural language processing (NLP) that includes a conversational interface along with prescriptive actions.

In other words, the same empowering intelligence that you depend on to maximize your driving experience is now available to IT leaders to help improve the experience of network devices, operators, and end users. In fact, you can even use the Marvis Android app to obtain a client-level view of your network.

Full Visibility for the Road Ahead

While there are similarities between the two, Juniper Mist AI goes much deeper than event notifications and problem alerts. It offers root cause analysis of a problem so that you can properly eradicate it in efficient fashion. As a result, this eliminates having to surf through endless logs trying to identify the hidden clue to a persistent issue that plagues the network. Causal relationships are identified, saving countless hours for your IT support staff.

Imagine having a cloud service for your enterprise that integrates with all wired and wireless network infrastructure devices. This would give you increased visibility and manageability of your switches, IoT devices, and wireless access points. Juniper switches, such as the , are cloud-ready and can be managed exclusively through the Juniper Mist portal. This simplifies the onboarding and configuration processes. This type of cloud-based management system is imperative for today’s complex networks that incorporate hybrid architectures and accommodate remote work strategies.

More Than Just Visibility

The complexity that hybrid architectures and remote work strategies have added to enterprises today have created other challenges other than visibility. Controller-based monolithic management systems cannot accommodate the expansive number of workspaces found in today’s networks. Fortunately, AIOps is about more than just visibility, anomaly detection and intelligent alerting – it also provides the automatic remediation of security or IT service problems. No more calling in personnel for a problem that has been identified during off-hours – Mist AI displaces your dependency on manual troubleshooting tasks, resulting in a network that is more predictable and features measurable network performance gains.

Take Network Performance to the Next Level

IT leaders used to measure network performance by its percentage of uptime, but those metrics have exceeded far beyond just connectivity. Just as drivers today won’t tolerate sluggish performance when it comes to their automobile, end users today are no longer tolerant to computing latency. You need a network that is optimized with AIOps to enhance the user experience. According to Juniper, there are three types of dramatic results you can witness in a self-driving network driven by AIOps:

• A reduction in IT support tickets by over 90%
• The ability to configure 500 sites in less than 5 minutes
• A reduction in technical staff visits to branch locations by 85%

Today, network performance is no longer based on just uptime. It is about network-driven performance. The success of a network is only measured by the satisfaction of its users.

Interact With Marvis

One might incorrectly assume that such an all-encompassing management service driven by ML analytics would require a highly technical command line or scripting interface. Instead, it’s as easy as talking to In the same way that consumers are growing accustomed to verbally interacting with Alexa or Siri, Marvis silently drives Mist AI in the background. Marvis understands simple questions and addresses them with from years of enterprise troubleshooting experience. IT staff members can query Marvis without prior knowledge of the management dashboard because Marvis reacts to verbalized intentions, not CLI commands.

Marvis can quickly become an extension of your IT team, augmenting their capabilities by taking over repetitive and routine tasks, allowing your IT staff to focus on more value-driven activities. Marvis gathers data from across the enterprise spectrum to provide client-to-cloud insights regarding baselining and anomaly detection. Marvis empowerment is transforming how IT teams engage with the enterprise today.

Conclusion

Gone are the days of relying on your coffee-stained road map to get you from A to B with no real indication of required drive time. The infusion of AI at the consumer level has changed the way we lead our lives and the smartphone apps we rely on. Thanks to AIOps, the approach to how IT leaders manage their networks has also changed. Self-driving networks are here to stay, as we continue to witness its unquestioned benefits. It is time for your IT team to discover how AIOps can transform your company with the self-driving network experience as well.

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• Network operational benefits
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• Business areas where AI flourishes

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