Spring is among us: warmer weather, blooming flowers, and the need to start monitoring on-campus university and school networks again now that students are starting to go back to in-person learning. Many of the customers I’ve talked to in the education vertical have said that at the moment, there isn’t much along the lines of …
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I think I can safely assume that everyone knows the cautionary tale of the boy who cried wolf. If you don’t, the moral is the more you say something is wrong when nothing is wrong, the more likely it is no one will believe you when something actually is wrong. In the network security world, …
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Even though most of us have looked at a calendar recently and thought, “I could have sworn we were in May, not October,” you can’t deny that the holidays are coming. There’s a chill in the air, forecasts for snow, and floods of emails and holiday advertising from almost every retail outlet. While shoppers are …
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We’ve all had days when we think to ourselves, “Man, I wish I could just work from home in my PJs.” Recently, as companies are allowing more employees to work remotely, VPN security is a greater concern and there is a growing need to monitor VPN tunnels.
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 …
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Corporate data theft is nothing new. In fact, according to a study conducted by McAfee, “[a] majority of IT professionals have experienced at least one data breach during their careers—61% at their current company and 48% at a previous company.” This is an alarming reality, but it’s one that we can understand better to prevent future data breaches.
These days, wireless networks support a mixed use of employees, guests, and vendors. Without adequate classification and prioritization of applications, companies risk reduced employee productivity and a longer response time to the critical applications that they use. As the need for wireless network monitoring on both traffic management and security levels increases, more and more …
A question that I have been getting a lot recently is, “how can someone better their disaster recovery monitoring”. Tools that utilize SNMP are going to assist you in discovering your backup links are being saturated (or have traffic) but are not going to be very useful in finding out what end system or process is …
I was working with a customer a couple weeks back, and wanted to share a sample Fortigate NetFlow configuration that we came up with. Fortigate firewalls now have support for NetFlow v9 (as of FortiOS 5.2.X). This is pretty big news, since previous versions only support sFlow. There are a few different ways to configure it …
Today, I want to discuss how you can use NetFlow for detecting malicious traffic on your network. With all of the recent malware outbreaks the network security tools and solutions put in place are becoming more and more critical. Alongside client Anti-Virus, corporate firewalls, and content filtering, malware can sometimes slip through all of that and still …
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