Network monitoring covers several segments, including network traffic analysis, network detection and response, network visibility and network performance monitoring.
Although the terms often overlap between suppliers, products and analysts' firms, companies rely on these factors.tools to monitor and protect your networksEven more so as threats to the network increase and evolve amid the COVID-19 pandemic, among other global crises.
As companies move to a remote workforce, they need to quickly accommodate the influx of VPN and web traffic, relying on increases in traffic capacity, while facilitating security policies.
Corporate networks now extend beyond the typical corporate office to employees' homes with various levels of reliable and secure connectivity.
Cyber attacks arise as malicious actors attack network vulnerabilities with ransomware, phishing and malware. Attacks persist, increasing the importance of network monitoring as a vital business objective.
Network and security teams therefore need to secure remote access, provide collaboration tools and monitor the various connections and traffic - all of which is driving growth in the network monitoring market.
Network monitoring converges with security
According to Global Market Insights in its report \"Network Traffic Analytics Market\", the network traffic analytics market is expected to grow at an annual growth rate of 17% between 2020 and 2026, reaching US $ 4.5 billion.
Similarly, Gartner has predicted that the global market for network performance monitoring and diagnostics will reach almost US$ 3 billion in 2020 and will grow at an annual growth rate of 12.1% until 2023.
And according to 451 Research, the network detection and response market is growing as companies implement tools to detect threats before they breach the network.
With the network monitoring and security markets poised for growth, the companies are prioritizing network monitoring, even as it shifts to a security focus.
Increasingly, companies are finding that traditional network performance monitoring and diagnostic tools are converging with security analysis tools - such as network traffic analysis - especially as vendors renew their products to offer more comprehensive threat detection capabilities, Gartner said in its report.
The objectives of network operations are increasingly aligned with security operations
Many network teams may choose to make changes to network performance monitoring and diagnostic tools by increasing throughput, decreasing latency or automating certain processes with new hardware and software. But these changes fail to offer what modern network monitoring tools can.
In fact, traditional network tools have the ability to centrally collect and store packet capture data, but IT teams often don't have sustainable ways of analyzing large amounts of data for performance and security.
In this way, modern network performance tools provide the same features with the addition of advanced analytics that have been enhanced with machine learning and AI, allowing them to analyze network traffic and detect threats.
As a result, the boundaries between traditional network performance monitoring and diagnostics and the more evolutionary network detection and response segment have become blurred.
Network performance monitoring and diagnostics for the benefit of company security
Basically, network performance monitoring and diagnostic tools collect traffic data and network health metrics from network devices and raw network packets to identify the root causes of performance degradations.
These tools use AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) functionality to predict network behavior and real-time analysis to evaluate its performance.
Many vendors are starting to introduce the use of AI-based analytics and machine learning to improve anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Thus, the network performance monitoring and diagnostics market includes segments such as application performance monitoring, IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps.
In addition, network detection and response tools use machine learning and other analytical techniques to detect suspicious traffic on corporate networks. These tools constantly evaluate network traffic flows in real time, analyzing network behavior and alerting teams if they detect anomalies, ensuring the safety and security of companies.
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