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jeffm

ISPs and Netflix Open Connect

Whether it’s after a long day at work, a rainy weekend, or when a new season of your favorite TV show is released, we’ve...

mikep

Cisco IWAN vs. Viptela

While investigating our SD-WAN value proposition with customers, I worked with one client who has Cisco IWAN for 250 branches uses Scrutinizer to monitor...

traci

Scrutinizer Installation Guide

I’ve recently had a couple of people reach out to me about the deployment process of our Scrutinizer Virtual Appliance (VA). I wanted to...

bobn

5 Lessons Learned at RSA 2018

Last week I traveled with the Plixer team to San Francisco for the RSA 2018 Conference. The show was bigger than ever, with nearly...

insider threats employees

How to Mitigate Insider Threats with Network Traffic Analytics

According to a recent Ponemon Institute report, the cost of insider-related breaches has escalated to over $8.7 million. What’s even more concerning is that...

joanna

NetFlow Configuration Guide: Best Practices

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...

Hourglass

How to Maintain a Secure Small Business Network (Even When You Work Alone)

Cybersecurity is never easy, but maintaining a secure small business network is arguably even harder because the IT team has much fewer staff. Even...

jake

Best Practices in Network Forensics

When shopping for tools to help with network forensics, you will find many vendors claiming why they are the best, but not necessarily how...

briand

How to Integrate Grafana with NetFlow (Part 2)

UPDATE: A new version of documentation is available here and an updated blog is available here. This week I have had a few customers...