It’s fall here on the east coast of the US and that means a few things. First is that the weather and leaves start changing and the second is that students start going back to school. I live in a college town, so seeing Franklin Street teaming with young minds ready to be molded is …
5 ways university networks need to shift in the post-pandemic world Read More »
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 …
I installed Scrutinizer 100 times and here’s what I learned Read More »
If you work on a corporate security team, endpoint security is an important framework to understand. After reading this blog, you’ll know the ins and outs of this framework, including why it’s crucial to modern networks and the best practices to implement and maintain it.
Enterprises are seeking a secure monitoring solution that performs encapsulation. Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN) identifies visibility gaps and vulnerabilities, but using it enables flow data to passively monitor on one or more ports or VLANs, and then sends traffic to the target destination. ERSPAN transports mirrored traffic over an IP network and ensures better network …
Being on the pre-sales side of the house, I hear about a lot of upcoming projects for a variety of different companies and verticals. One that is really starting to get some traction is a cloud-first initiative. This guide aims to help new users deploy their Scrutinizer server into Amazon AWS as an AMI.
Part of my responsibility as a Sales Engineer at Plixer is to find new and exciting ways to integrate our tools with those that our customers already use. Often these tools have APIs that let us do this easily! We’ve already created a few other integrations with SolarWinds and have recently developed integration with their …
According to Gartner, when it comes to context-aware security, the most commonly cited context types are location and time. However, there are multiple types of context that can be used to glean information about your network. If you are a security professional who feels that they are losing visibility with NetFlow, there are ways to …
Managing a network without having the necessary tools for visibility and control is similar to playing Russian roulette. You know a problem is going to occur, you’re just not sure when or how to find it. With the volume of mobile, cloud, and Internet of Things traffic increasing on a daily basis, visibility into network usage, …