Network Operations
Monitoring SD-WAN Traffic with NetFlow
Many businesses have, or are thinking about replacing their MPLS network infrastructure with Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN). They
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Network Operations
How to Prevent NetFlow Export Storms
When measuring NetFlow volume, we typically speak in thousands of flows per second. That data is exported over UDP
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Network Operations
Endpoint protection isn’t enough: you need network traffic analytics
The recent SANs 2018 Survey on Endpoint Protection and Response makes clear that point-security solutions are not enough to
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Network Operations
Clearing the Mine Field: Scrutinizer & Lansweeper for Network Monitoring
Greetings fellow sysadmins. Either you’re reading this because you’ve just installed Lansweeper too, or else you’re wondering “What is
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Network Operations
Scrutinizer SaaS Deployment
Let’s talk about the cloud for a minute. A majority of IT infrastructure has been moving to the cloud
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Network Operations
Extreme Networks: Enabling and Disabling SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3
Why am I seeing SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 attempts when I’ve only got SNMPv3 enabled? It appears some of Extreme’s
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Network Operations
Network Traffic Analytics with Gigamon
Quite some time ago, my colleague wrote about our Gigamon NetFlow support. That article will help you understand how
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Network Operations
Best Practices in Network Forensics, Part II: Insider Threats
In part 1 of our Best Practices in Network Forensics we discussed different integrations and how you can tie
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Network Operations
Username Reporting – NetFlow Integration with Cisco ISE
Traditionally in networking, we track down end systems by searching on IP addresses. Although this is a great way
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Network Operations
How to detect SSH credential misuse with network traffic analytics
According to a recent article on BleepingComputer, a backdoor Python library can steal SSH credentials. This can lead to ssh credential
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