Author: Joanna Buckley

Joanna is a technical support specialist here at Plixer. During the work day, Joanna works with customers from all over the world to resolve their tech issues to assure that they are working with the latest and greatest that Plixer has to offer. Joanna may have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in History from the University of Southern Maine but that hasn't slowed her passion for tech and working with it hands on. Outside of work she enjoys video games, living history, gardening, crafting and working with her second home The Brick Store Museum here in Kennebunk.

Security Operations

VPN security for a rapidly scaling remote workforce

03.25.20 - Joanna Buckley

We’ve all had days when we think to ourselves, “Man, I wish I could just work from home in my PJs.” Recently, as companies are allowing more employees to work remotely, VPN security is a greater concern and there is a growing need to monitor VPN tunnels.

BYOD

Finding BYOD malware on your network

01.17.20 - Joanna Buckley

We all know that computers and laptops can get viruses, malware, and ransomware, but what about smartphones? This blog will cover how to detect infected BYOD devices on your network.

BYOD

Do you know how much of your company’s bandwidth is being used for BYOD and phone updates?

10.30.19 - Joanna Buckley

Do you ever feel as though no matter how much bandwidth you buy, it still isn’t enough? Phone and BYOD updates can use a large amount of bandwidth; here is how to figure out just how much.

Network Security

Phishing detection: what not to do and how we help

08.07.19 - Joanna Buckley

Phishing attempts have been showing up a lot in the news lately and scammers are getting smarter. What can we do? What shouldn’t we do?

Security Operations

How to Protect Your Network Against the ‘Sea Turtle’ DNS Hijacking Campaign

05.01.19 - Joanna Buckley

A large-scale DNS hijacking campaign called ‘Sea Turtle’ has been spreading across more than 13 countries. With our FlowPro Defender, you can monitor your organization’s DNS activity.

Configuration

How to Configure Meraki for SNMP Polling

02.13.19 - Joanna Buckley

SNMP, also known as Simple Network Management Protocol, can be a network admin’s best friend. With the ability to pass SNMP information to other devices and monitoring tools, we can easily identify a device instead of having to stop and run an nslookup. A question I’ve received a lot recently is, “how can you configure Meraki devices to send SNMP information to Scrutinizer?” Here’s how!

Configuration

How to Configure Cisco AnyConnect to Send Flow Data

11.14.18 - Joanna Buckley

Most companies have a VPN set up to allow users remote access to the company network, but that leaves a blind spot on the network—until now.

Configuration

Configuring Scrutinizer for LDAP Authentication

09.05.18 - Joanna Buckley

Local authentication into software or even hardware is useful for both the end user and the organization as a whole. Logging in with your network LDAP credentials limits the number of passwords you need to keep track of, and serves as an added security measure. In this blog, I will cover the basics of LDAP, as well as explain how to set up Scrutinizer for LDAP authentication.

Configuration

Splunk NetFlow Support: Viewing Your NetFlow in Splunk

06.27.18 - Joanna Buckley

The last time we showed you how to seamlessly integrate Splunk with Scrutinizer was all the way back in 2015. Since then, we have made quite a few changes to Scrutinizer and how our third-party integrations work.

Configuration

NetFlow Configuration Guide: Best Practices

04.25.18 - Joanna Buckley

One of the things I do daily with customers is help them configure NetFlow on their network devices. Often as I’m going through my configuration, they ask what the best practices are for setting up NetFlow. What are the basic fields needed to make NetFlow configuration ideal for flow analytics reporting? Well, I’d be happy to answer that question for you!