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Plixer recognized as Most Innovative NDR vendor by Cyber Defense Magazine

Plixer has been recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2021 InfoSec Award as the Most Innovative in Network Detection & Response. This award acknowledges Plixer’s continued

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Five ways Plixer Scrutinizer helps education networks

Spring is among us: warmer weather, blooming flowers, and the need to start monitoring on-campus university and school networks

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Forensic investigation of endpoints using NetFlow

This blog will go over how to use some of the features in Plixer Scrutinizer v19.0, such as the

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How can I load balance my NetFlow traffic across multiple collectors?

Do you find that you are constantly modifying NetFlow configurations to balance collector workloads?  The latest release of Scrutinizer introduces

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Tracking the SUNBURST exploit with metadata

Updated: 1/6/2021 On 12/13/20, cybersecurity company FireEye published research for the SUNBURST exploit, which is affecting companies using SolarWinds

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Inspecting encrypted traffic with JA3 and JA3S fingerprinting

Two years ago, I wrote a blog about tracking malware in encrypted traffic. The overall theme of that blog

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Plixer Scrutinizer new UI changes

With the newest release of version 19.0.0, I’d like to go over how Plixer Scrutinizer’s UI has changed to

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Detecting RDP attacks with NetFlow and metadata

An ever increasing attack vector in the healthcare industry are attacks against open or unsecured RDP connections that allow

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We’ve released our biggest update ever, plus two new products

One year ago, we announced our new vision. That is, we believe that SecOps and NetOps provide value for

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Slickwraps breach and metadata analysis

In a new series of blogs, we will go over some recent data breaches and how metadata analysis could

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