Elgin Robinson, Author at Plixer

How human negligence affects network security

As enterprises adjust to the new normal and remote work, they are bracing for potential attacks resulting from employee carelessness. Bad habits, such as leaving devices unattended while on the VPN, can pose serious risks to the business. This blog will discuss how human negligence affects network security and provide some examples of how some threat vectors impacts organizations.

Security Operations

How to detect bogon connections

08.12.20 - Elgin Robinson

Many ISPs filter bogon connections because bogon IP addresses have no legitimate use. If you find a bogon or bogus IP address in your firewall logs, it is likely due to a misconfiguration or someone intentionally creating a bogon connection for malicious purposes. This blog provides guidance on how to detect bogon connections with Plixer Scrutinizer and potentially discover other vulnerabilities that would compromise an enterprise network environment.

SD-WAN visibility

Support criteria for SD-WAN vendors

05.27.20 - Elgin Robinson

As OEMs continue to invest in WAN optimization, what differentiates vendors’ capabilities so that enterprises seek to scale their infrastructure? In this blog, we’ve created a matrix defining functionalities that help enterprises save money, manage their application performance, and secure their network. The matrix displays the strengths and benefits of each SD-WAN vendor and how they can evolve their WAN ecosystem.

Security Operations

The strategic approach to adtech monitoring

03.18.20 - Elgin Robinson

When exploring how digital advertising affects users on a daily basis, you may wonder what solutions are in place to monitor complex systems in real time. Think of searching for the latest Apple iPhone: it only takes this one search and then you’ll get iPhone ads in your email and in between your daily search for other items. This is called adtech and it focuses on a targeted demographic or subject through direct advertising. This blog explores adtech, but first we need to understand how the adtech ecosystem works.

Performance Management

The strategic approach to network performance monitoring

03.16.20 - Elgin Robinson

When speaking with customers about what they need to support their infrastructure, the thing we hear most is “network performance monitoring.” This blog will share my insight on what is network performance monitoring, tools utilized, and methods to use Scrutinizer for monitoring network performance.