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Author: Jake

Jake Bergeron is currently one of Plixer's Sr. Solutions Engineers - He is currently responsible for providing customers with onsite training and configurations to make sure that Scrutinizer is setup to their need. Previously he was responsible for teaching Plixer's Advanced NetFlow Training / Malware Response Training. When he's not learning more about NetFlow and Malware detection he also enjoys Fishing and Hiking.
Security Operations

How to streamline your network monitoring workflows with API integrations

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In this industry, I’ve seen a common trend of buying best-in-breed solutions that are built for one or a few things instead of the jack-of-all trade solutions. While I believe this idea is generally a good one, it often leaves end users with the task of learning multiple interfaces and leaves you with only using a fraction of the product you purchased.  As a sales engineer at Plixer, part of my role is working with customers to streamline their workflows using not just our solution, but others they have purchased as well. This blog will go over a couple types of integrations that we have and will hopefully spark something that you can use on your network.

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Security Operations

Using your network as a sensor

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I spent a lot of time talking to customers at RSA 2019 and a message that resonated with a lot of them was using your network as a sensor. I believe this is because SOC analysts often dig through log data or full packet capture—but then overlook network metadata because it isn’t available to them or they don’t know how to properly use it. This blog will give you a high-level view of what you might be missing out on by not collecting and analyzing network metadata such as IPFIX/NetFlow.

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Security Operations

Real-Time DDoS Detection & Analysis

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DDoS attacks have plagued the network security space for almost 20 years. In that time, we have seen a lot of changes. In just 2018 alone, we saw the first multi-terabyte/s DDoS attacks, which have been bringing large organizations to their knees. If you aren’t prepared to quickly and effectively analyze DDoS attacks in real time, are you even prepared at all?

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Network Operations

Scrutinizer AMI Deployment Guide

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Being on the pre-sales side of the house, I hear about a lot of upcoming projects for a variety of different companies and verticals. One that is really starting to get some traction is a cloud-first initiative. This guide aims to help new users deploy their Scrutinizer server into Amazon AWS as an AMI.

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Configuration

Configuring SolarWinds IPAM Integration

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Part of my responsibility as a Sales Engineer at Plixer is to find new and exciting ways to integrate our tools with those that our customers already use. Often these tools have APIs that let us do this easily! We’ve already created a few other integrations with SolarWinds and have recently developed integration with their IPAM module.

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