About
This bio was provided during this employee's time at ExtraHop and does not reflect any current positions or experience.
About Colin
Starting first in Unix (BSDi/FreeBSD) technical support for a shared web hosting company and working up through sys-admin and eventually to software engineer, Colin has steeped in applications and automation for over 15 years. With a background in programming and applications, he somehow ended up working in the networking world, and never looked back. Colin spent the last 10 years at F5, working on their DevCentral user community. He's excited to be a part of the ExtraHop team and looks forward to helping the ExtraHop community grow and flourish by helping IT pros better applications everywhere by wielding the power of wire data. Twitter: colin_walker.
Posts
11.27.17
Announcing: ExtraHop & Amazon Web Services Bundle
The reality in today's data driven IT landscape is that we all want to know basically everything. All the time. Not only do we want to see it all, we want to see it now.
Colin Walker
9.22.16
Announcing the First Ever ExtraHop Bundle Programming Contest
Pit your ExtraHop customization skills against the best and brightest users in the community. Submit a bundle for a chance to win fabulous prizes!
Colin Walker
5.3.16
Small Appliance, Big Vision: ExtraHop 5.2
ExtraHop 5.2 launches with amazing new features, new protocols, and a powerful new appliance in a small, plug-and-play package.
Colin Walker
4.25.16
What Is LDAP, and Who Needs It Anyway?
Get an up-to-date definition of LDAP and quickly understand the impact - both positive and potentially negative - this protocol brings to an organization.
Colin Walker
12.2.15
Good Company, Good Beer, and Wicked Cool Tech at ExtraHop's Southeast User Group [Video]
Hack the Gibson. Build a better mousetrap. Learn to do the impossible with amazing tech at ExtraHop User Groups. Here are some highlights from the recent one in Atlanta.
Colin Walker
9.24.15
New Community Forums are Live!
Ever hear the saying "many hands make light work"? How about "Two heads are better than one"? Well how about hundreds or even thousands of heads? A community of users can do together what no single user could, and they can do it faster, better, and easier. Check out the new ExtraHop Community Forums.
Colin Walker
6.8.15
ExtraHop Top5: June 8, 2015
Real-User Monitoring, Outranging HTTP.sys attacks, HL7 analytics, New Episode of War Room Chronicles, and more in this edition of ExtraHop Top5.
Colin Walker
5.5.15
#Geeksquee and More: 5 Choice Moments from Interop 2015
ExtraHop had a great time at Interop 2015. A life-sized robot preaching the value of wire data may have had something to do with it! Check out our top 5 moments!
Colin Walker
4.24.15
War Room Chronicles: ExtraHop's TME Podcast (For Great Justice!)
The War Room Chronicles is our TME podcast. We ship one every couple weeks (usually every second Friday, barring major incident), and it is your portal into our world.
Colin Walker
4.17.15
Outranging HTTP.sys Range-Based Attacks, Trigger Style
Collect metrics to see who is scanning your systems for HTTP.sys range-based attacks, which systems are scanned, and overall HTTP request rates.
Colin Walker
4.9.15
ExtraHop Top5: April 8, 2015
Nojan provides a practical methodology for creating well-designed and useful ExtraHop dashboards to visualize your wire data.
Colin Walker
1.7.15
Turla Trojan Tactics Trounced
It turns out that not even a "stealthy" Linux trojan can hide from ExtraHop. Colin explains how to detect this Turla component's command-and-control traffic.
Colin Walker
12.17.14
Community: The Icing on Your ExtraHop & Why I'm Here
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Colin Walker explains why he joined ExtraHop and his vision for a wire data analytics community.
Colin Walker