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02RESEARCH BLOG

Field notes from the operations floor.

Engineering

Palo Alto vs Fortinet vs Cisco: Choosing the Right Firewall

Firewall deployment looks simple until cutover night. Here's how to pick the platform — and the deployment model — that survives the next decade.

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Strategy

A Practical Zero Trust Roadmap for the Boundaryless Enterprise

Zero Trust is a journey, not a product. Here's the 24-month roadmap our enterprise clients actually follow.

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Cyber Defence

12 Common Mistakes Enterprises Make With Endpoint Security & EDR

EDR is only as good as how you deploy and tune it. Here are the 12 mistakes we see most often — and the fixes.

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Engineering

Next-Generation Firewall Deployment & Management — A Field Guide

Deep-packet inspection, ZTNA, MFA, IPS — what to switch on, what to leave off, and how to phase the rollout.

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Operations

BCP & Disaster Recovery: Securing DR Networks and Segmentation

Most DR sites are an attacker's playground. Here's how to harden DR networks before ransomware finds them.

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Networking

SD-WAN vs MPLS in 2026: When You Still Need a Private WAN

SD-WAN didn't kill MPLS — it just changed where MPLS belongs. Here's the decision framework.

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Cloud

Cloud FinOps: 9 Practices That Actually Cut Bills

FinOps tooling is half the answer. The other half is operational habit. Here's what works in real enterprises.

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Compliance

RBI Cyber Framework: A Readiness Checklist for Indian BFSI

What RBI actually expects, what auditors look for, and what most banks miss in their pre-audit gap analysis.

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Incident Response

Ransomware Recovery: A Playbook For The First 72 Hours

Containment, comms, forensics and recovery — what actually happens in the first 72 hours of a real attack.

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Manufacturing

OT/IT Convergence in Manufacturing: Beyond Air-Gaps

Air-gaps don't survive Industry 4.0. Here's the segmentation model that does — without breaking production.

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Networking

SASE Architecture: A Practitioner's Guide

Secure Access Service Edge — what it actually means, and how to evaluate the platforms claiming to deliver it.

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Infrastructure

Data Centre Tiers Explained: III vs IV and What It Costs

Uptime Institute Tier ratings demystified — when Tier III is enough, and when Tier IV is non-negotiable.

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03CLIENT OUTCOMES

Case studies — numbers that survive a boardroom.

73%MTTR REDUCTION
BFSI

Tier-1 Bank SOC Modernization

73% MTTR reduction across a 1,400-endpoint estate after consolidating 4 SIEMs into a unified Cylentrix-managed SOC mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

99.99%NETWORK UPTIME
Retail

600-Store SD-WAN Migration

99.99% network availability and 38% connectivity TCO saving across 600 stores after a 9-month hybrid SD-WAN cutover.

42%CLOUD TCO CUT
Healthcare

Multi-State Healthcare Cloud Migration

42% cloud TCO reduction over 24 months across a HIPAA-aligned landing zone, with zero data-loss events during cutover.

14.2KTHREATS / HOUR BLOCKED
Manufacturing

11-Plant OT/IT Convergence

14.2K threats blocked per hour at converged OT/IT edges across 11 plants, with no production downtime during cutover.

84%PRIV-ACCESS INCIDENTS CUT
IT/ITES

Global IT Services Zero Trust Rollout

60-country Zero Trust workspace deployment for a 25,000-employee IT services firm, with 84% reduction in privileged-access incidents.

27%CONNECTIVITY SAVED
Logistics

Logistics SD-WAN & Fleet Visibility

End-to-end SD-WAN, IoT-fleet visibility and warehouse Wi-Fi for a leading 3PL — saving 27% on connectivity spend.

100%CERT-IN ALIGNED
Government

Government Sovereign Cloud Landing Zone

CERT-In aligned sovereign cloud landing zone for a state government department, with audit-ready evidence pack.

CONCURRENT USER LOAD
Education

University Campus Wi-Fi 6E Rollout

120,000-user campus Wi-Fi 6E rollout with identity-based access — supporting 4× the previous concurrent-user load.

9SUBSTATIONS HARDENED
Energy

Power-Utility OT Segmentation

Brownfield OT/SCADA segmentation across 9 substations — Purdue-aligned without taking control loops offline.

<5msINTER-SITE LATENCY
Media

Broadcast Interconnect & Content Security

Low-latency dark-fibre interconnect, content-delivery DRM and secure broadcast playout for a regional broadcaster.

47PROPERTIES HARDENED
Hospitality

Hotel Group PCI Network Rebuild

PCI-DSS aligned network segmentation across 47 hotels with central guest Wi-Fi and unified identity.

0STANDING PRIVILEGE
BFSI

Insurance Group IAM Overhaul

Identity and privileged-access programme for a top-5 insurance group — JIT access, zero standing privilege.

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