Security Operations
Network Detection and Response (NDR): What does it mean?
What is NDR? This blog will focus on the hottest 3-letter acronym of 2020 & 2021—NDR. Network Detection and
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Security Operations
Network traffic demands of the post-pandemic era and how to manage them
Gartner just posted their worldwide spending forecast report for the first quarter of 2021 and it looks positive. Clearly,
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Security Operations
Why and how to export a violator list for DDoS mitigation
The need to detect and mitigate denial-of-service attacks is nothing new to network and security administrators. DoS attacks on
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Security Operations
Should you be monitoring ping?
Ping is one of those protocols that no one thinks about until it isn’t working and you’re trying to
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Security Operations
The harsh truth about the next cyberattack
I don’t know about you, but it seems like there’s news of some big data breach every other month.
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Security Operations
5 ways of verifying security risks and avoiding false positives
I think I can safely assume that everyone knows the cautionary tale of the boy who cried wolf. If
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Security Operations
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
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Security Operations
Five ways Plixer Scrutinizer helps retail networks
Even though most of us have looked at a calendar recently and thought, “I could have sworn we were
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Security Operations
Username reporting: NetFlow integration with Splunk
I was recently able to explore the Splunk software development kit with a customer. This helped me to implement
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Security Operations
How to detect suspicious ICMP traffic
A few years ago, we added a behavioral algorithm to Plixer Scrutinizer that looked at all the flow data
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