The big boss had a conference call over the weekend. She sent a message to your boss’s boss, which trickled downhill, and eventually made its way to you in the form of a text message.
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Can your network survive the coronavirus lockdown?
Posted on - by Scott
Lately, I have seen an increase in support calls regarding the increase in bandwidth consumption and the degradation of application performance seen when employees started working from home because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more4 must-have reports for network traffic analysis
Posted on - by Stephen Tutterow
Where do I start?
We all end up asking ourselves this question as we dive into a new platform and a sea of new processes. Whether your job requires you to seek out issues within the network or hunt for anomalies and threats, having some guidance goes a long way. Plixer’s Scrutinizer platform uses flow and metadata analysis to provide rich context with automatic template recognition, which means little to no upfront configuration. However, I still believe it’s crucial to know where to start because data can be daunting, even when it’s your own. I’ve had a few opportunities to ride shotgun on threat hunting and network slowdown events and in my experience, these reports will allow anyone to bubble up the right issues using Scrutinizer.
Read moreSharePoint vulnerabilities: using metadata to verify traffic
Posted on - by James Dougherty
Last month the FBI posted ALERT AC-000113-TT, which mentions an increase in unidentified cyber actors exploiting a known SharePoint vulnerability to gain access to unprotected networks. The CVE-2019-1491 vulnerability was found late last year and Microsoft posted an out-of-band patch soon after. The FBI soon raised the alert after it received reports that multiple municipalities here in the states had been compromised.
Read moreWhat you should know about Ryuk ransomware
Posted on - by Traci Anderberg
Ryuk ransomware was discovered in August of 2018. Since then, over 100 US organizations have been affected. Knowing more about how Ryuk ransomware operates can help us to better protect our network.
Read moreCybersecurity’s role in digital transformation and brand
Posted on - by Alienor
Digital transformation is crucial whether you lead a small business or an enterprise. But it’s hard to do, expensive, and unfortunately, the odds of success are low. So how can IT and security leaders step in to improve the odds and become invaluable to the organization brand?
Read moreFinding BYOD malware on your network
Posted on - by 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.
Read moreI installed Scrutinizer 100 times and here’s what I learned
Posted on - by Jake
As a Presales Engineer, I spend a good portion of my time helping with Scrutinizer installs and helping troubleshoot unique use cases for end users. In my 7 years of doing this, I’ve noticed a lot of commonality between installs even in disparate environments. I hope to add more to this list as time goes on and trends in the industry evolve further.
Read moreReporting on Microsoft O365 with flow data
Posted on - by Brian Davenport
When thinking about extracting maximum value from network metadata such as Netflow, IPFIX, SFlow, etc., data enrichment becomes extremely important.
Read moreSelling your genetic information, a Kansas farm turned digital nightmare, and more: Q4 ’19 cybersecurity roundup
Posted on - by Alienor
We’ve reached our last roundup post of the year (and the decade!). This quarter’s interesting articles included yet another example of tech meant to protect children endangering them instead; how we’ve all trained AI for years without realizing it; a truly bizarre solution for poor user-chosen passwords, and more.
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