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5.21.19
IT Detects Security Threats First. It's Worth Considering Why.
Security Operations and IT Operations are working together more effectively, but there are still challenges caused by visibility gaps. Read the 2019 Dark Reading survey results to learn what those are, and how to overcome them.
Tyson Supasatit
3.14.19
How Network Traffic Analysis Supports the CIS Top 20 Controls
The CIS Top 20 Controls help you prioritize your security efforts. Learn how network traffic analysis solutions are the easiest way to get the most CIS Control coverage in a short amount of time.
Tyson Supasatit
2.12.19
Show and Tell: What a Live Attack Simulation Looks Like in Reveal(x)
Our online demo now features a live attack simulation where you can observe a hacker doing her job: exploiting a Drupal vulnerability, installing custom executables through PsExec, and more.
Tyson Supasatit
1.4.19
Incident Response Under GDPR
Incident Response teams are under the gun with new data breach reporting requirements thanks to regulations like GDPR. Hear from EMA Research about how to use network traffic analysis as a force multiplier for IR.
Tyson Supasatit
12.11.18
Clarity in the Fog of War: The Value of Red-Blue Exercises
It's hard to win a fight if you've never thrown a punch. For cyber security, practice comes in the form of Red-Blue exercises like the one ExtraHop just hosted in our Seattle headquarters. Watch this 2-minute video to see the Blue team take on faux-attackers with Reveal(x)!
Tyson Supasatit
11.30.18
Top 2018 Risk Management Stats for Security Leaders
In their 2018 study on managing risk and stopping insider or external attackers, the Ponemon Institute revealed some sobering statistics about the state of risk management today. Get the full scoop to help you evaluate and improve your 2019 security posture.
Tyson Supasatit
11.15.18
Decrypt Perfect Forward Secrecy with F5 BIG-IP and ExtraHop
Learn how to use F5 BIG-IP to capture perfect forward secrecy session keys and forward them to ExtraHop in order to passively analyze PFS-encrypted network traffic.
Tyson Supasatit
5.11.18
TLS 1.3: Will Your Network Monitoring Go Blind?
Not sure how to maintain IT and security visibility now that TLS 1.3 requires perfect forward secrecy encryption? Watch this webinar (or read the transcript!) for current encryption trends, what's next for TLS 1.3, and how ExtraHop provides an elegant and lightweight solution to the visibility challenge.
Tyson Supasatit
4.15.18
How ExtraHop Analyzes 1 PB+ Per Day Without Breaking a Sweat
If you can't scale your analytics platform to match cloud adoption and unprecedented data growth, you'll be making IT and security decisions based on guesswork. Learn how ExtraHop analyzes over 1 PB of data per day, and why that scalability matters.
Tyson Supasatit
2.20.18
How to Keep Your Software Vendors Accountable for Performance
While you can't instrument commercial on-prem and SaaS apps, here's how to derive valuable performance insights from the network.
Tyson Supasatit
2.20.18
INFOGRAPHIC: Keep Your Application Vendors Honest About Performance
Learn how to use insights derived from network communications when your commercial application vendors won't help troubleshoot performance issues.
Tyson Supasatit
2.8.18
How to Save Your Data Center Migration
Few organizations trust their CMDB fully, so come learn a better way to discover assets and dependencies, as well as measure performance baselines!
Tyson Supasatit
11.27.17
Network Teams, Need A Wingman?
Learn why EMA Research picked ExtraHop Addy for a 2017 Innovator's Award, calling the machine learning offering an 'intelligent co-pilot' for stressed network engineers.
Tyson Supasatit
11.2.17
The Network Engineer's Guide to the Galaxy...of Application Teams
Network engineer Rasika Nayanajith shares his experience using ExtraHop to gain credibility with application teams.
Tyson Supasatit
11.2.17
It's Not Citrix...AD, Storage, etc., Are to Blame
Citrix CTA Rory Monaghan shares his experience using ExtraHop to understand how the underlying infrastructure affects Citrix performance.
Tyson Supasatit
9.19.17
Introducing ExtraHop 7.0
The ExtraHop 7.0 release advances the state-of-the-art in terms of gaining visibility into your environment. Finally, you can know the shape of your enterprise.
Tyson Supasatit
9.5.17
Hunter or Hunted ... Which Would You Rather Be?
While most organizations are left reeling after attacks, leading security teams are getting proactive about defense.
Tyson Supasatit
7.25.17
Digital Forensic Diaries: Q&A with Author Mike Sheward
We took a moment to chat with Mike Sheward, author of the Digital Forensic Diaries, about his collection of cybersecurity short stories.
Tyson Supasatit
10.4.18
Splunk Agrees: Wire Data Adds Crucial Context to Logs
Splunk and ExtraHop weigh in on the benefits of adding wire data to logs to fill critical visibility gaps. Learn why wire data is the ultimate source of truth for security and IT!
Tyson Supasatit
4.27.17
Lightboard Video: The Silent Scream in Your Datacenter
Monitoring your data combined with security measures, improve your tactical data timeline.
Tyson Supasatit
3.14.17
Data Gravity: What It Is and Why You Should Care
How to solve the problem of data gravity using machine learning for cloud analytics.
Tyson Supasatit
3.14.17
Do IT Pros Think Machine Learning Is Hope or Hype?
Is it all hype, or does machine learning offer real hope for IT organizations? We surveyed IT professionals to find out!
Tyson Supasatit
1.3.17
Microsoft Will Block SHA-1 Certs in 2017. Here's How to Find Them.
Edge, IE, Chrome, and Firefox plan to stop supporting the SHA-1 algorithm. ExtraHop lets you easily see what applications in your environment use that hash function.
Tyson Supasatit
11.30.16
Network Engineers Love Watching Paint Dry
Dan Greer compares a typical PCAP troubleshooting workflow with the ExtraHop platform, which enables you to get from metrics to packets in seconds.
Tyson Supasatit
11.3.16
Log Data vs. Wire Data: Why There's a Clear Winner
SIEM or log analytics platform user? Watch this lightboard video to see the comparisons between traditional log data and wire data.
Tyson Supasatit
10.27.16
Don't Trust Log Data! Lessons from the Cryptonomicon
It's been clear for decades that logs are flawed when it comes to security. Even the cyberpunks in Cryptonomicon knew it. What should you use instead?
Tyson Supasatit
8.30.16
Manage and Monitor Containerized Applications with VMware and ExtraHop
Get better visibility into virtualized and containerized apps by adding stream analytics and wire data to the mix.
Tyson Supasatit
8.26.15
The Results Are In: "State of ITOA" Survey
Industry-research firm TechValidate surveyed IT professionals to find out what IT organizations' plans were for IT Operations Analytics.
Tyson Supasatit
8.13.15
How Lockheed Martin Uses Wire Data For Situational Awareness
Eric Sharpsten, CTO of Lockheed Martin's Federal Health practice, discusses how his organization gains visibility in large, dynamic IT environments.
Tyson Supasatit
1.12.15
ExtraHop Is the Proud Home of the Binary 12th Man!
The 00001100th Man is ExtraHop's geeky salute to a beloved Seahawks tradition. It's our way of showing our love for the amazing Seattle technology community that is cheering for the Seahawks alongside…
Tyson Supasatit
11.5.14
The Big Data Opportunity for Healthcare with HL7 Analytics
If there's any industry that stands to benefit from IT-enabled insights, it's healthcare. However, traditional methods of analyzing healthcare operations data are costly, rigid, and complex. Clinical…
Tyson Supasatit
10.15.14
Neuter the POODLE: Detect All SSLv3 Clients and Servers with ExtraHop
Following on the heels of the Heartbleed and Shellshock exploits, the new POODLE vulnerability in SSL version 3.0 (SSLv3) is the latest to require IT teams to identify and patch vulnerable…
Tyson Supasatit
9.12.14
IT Is Drowning in Data, But Thirsty for Insight
Water, water, every where,Nor any drop to drink. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner IT teams have plenty of data. What they lack is visibility and insight. Over the past several weeks, ExtraHop has…
Tyson Supasatit
9.3.14
Why IT Needs a Culture of Healthy Paranoia
There are three words to explain why IT professionals need a dose of healthy paranoia: Advanced. Persistent. Threat. The term "advanced persistent threat" was coined in 2006 to differentiate from…
Tyson Supasatit
6.18.14
See Which World Cup Matches Are Popular in Your Office
Update: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is no longer being actively maintained. There's some World Cup mania taking hold at ExtraHop HQ, as is likely in offices around the world. Our technical…
Tyson Supasatit
5.29.14
Server Decommissioning: Wait, We Have How Many DNS Servers?!
The Uptime Institute runs a contest each year in which data center managers compete to see who has decommissioned the most physical servers. Barclays, the multinational bank, ranked first last year by…
Tyson Supasatit
5.13.14
Run Your "Microsoft Shop" Better with Wire Data Visibility
ExtraHop simplifies IT operations for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other Microsoft technologies. If you run a "Microsoft shop," then this blog post is a must-read. ExtraHop can help you…
Tyson Supasatit
5.1.14
Target's Data Breach: What IT Pros on LinkedIn Had to Say
IT professionals offered up some great insights on LinkedIn. After the Target data breach last November, we posted an update to our LinkedIn page, asking "What's the lesson from Target's data…
Tyson Supasatit
4.11.14
Detect Heartbleed Exploits with ExtraHop's Free Download
Note: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is no longer under active development or maintenance, but current license-holders may continue to use all features described in this post. If you are responsible…
Tyson Supasatit
4.4.14
More Time with Patients, Less Time Waiting for the Application
Steward Health Care System treats more than 1 million patients each year through its network of hospitals and physician network. We recently published a case study highlighting how Boston-based…
Tyson Supasatit
3.15.14
HTTP Compression and Other ADC Optimization Wins
Most enterprise IT organizations use application delivery controllers (ADCs) to improve the availability, speed, and efficiency of the IT infrastructure. However, ADCs offer limited metrics to help in…
Tyson Supasatit
2.17.14
You Should Never Send to Know "For Whom the SYN ACKs"
Ben authored the For Whom the SYN ACKs poem, which is available as a poster. Watch the video below for a dramatic reading of the poem. One of the reasons that I like IT Operations is because of the…
Tyson Supasatit
2.15.14
Paying Down Technical Debt in Your IT Infrastructure
The Phoenix Project co-author Gene Kim spoke at the ExtraHop sales conference in January, explaining technical debt and the "IT death spiral." The idea of "technical debt" is one of the most…
Tyson Supasatit
2.1.14
Monitoring at Scale: Questions You Should Ask Your Vendor
The ExtraHop team was conducting on-site training recently and brought back a great validation of the importance of monitoring scalability: A SaaS provider for the healthcare industry is analyzing…
Tyson Supasatit
1.30.14
Seahawks Get a Geeky Salute with ExtraHop's "Binary 12th Man"
A couple weeks ago, Seattle's geek reputation was on the line. The Seahawks were up against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship, a game some had dubbed the "Nerd Bowl" because Seattle and…
Tyson Supasatit
1.28.14
ExtraHop Provides Wire Data Insight for XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5
Enterprise IT organizations now have more options in how they deploy Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop infrastructure. The recently announced XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 enables enterprise IT to flex…
Tyson Supasatit
1.3.14
What IT Can Learn from Target's Data Breach
[Update, September 15, 2015: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition mentioned at the end of this post is no longer in active development or maintenance, but current license-holders may continue to use all…
Tyson Supasatit
10.23.13
Four Data Sources for IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) – A Conceptual Framework
There are four primary sources of data for IT Operations Analytics. Trying to evaluate IT monitoring tools can be quite challenging. By our reckoning, there are more than a hundred vendors and…
Tyson Supasatit
9.18.13
Transaction Tracing for Web Gateways, Load Balancers, and Other Proxies
As with the Perl language, ExtraHop makes easy things easy and hard things possible with Application Inspection Triggers, a programmatic interface to the Context and Correlation Engine. Larry Wall…
Tyson Supasatit
6.5.13
Wire Data: The Visibility You Need for Microsoft Environments
ExtraHop simplifies IT operations for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other Microsoft technologies. If you run a "Microsoft shop," then this blog post is a must-read. ExtraHop can help you…
Tyson Supasatit
5.22.13
Monitoring the Performance of Citrix XenDesktop 7 with ExtraHop
Citrix officially launched XenDesktop 7 at Citrix Synergy 2013 this week in Los Angeles. We're at the conference to demonstrate how the ExtraHop platform equips IT organizations with the correlated…
Tyson Supasatit
11.15.12
Reimagining Packet Capture in Light of Riverbed's Opnet Acquisition
ExtraHop recently announced a method of packet capture that enables network and security teams to capture packets of interest with surgical precision. This capability preserves all the benefits of…
Tyson Supasatit
10.24.12
Case Study: DevOps Collaboration with Application Performance Management (APM)
Traditionally, performance-monitoring tools have been relegated to silos—DBAs have their database profilers, developers and Q&A have their agent-based application instrumentation, and network guys…
Tyson Supasatit