About Tyson
Tyson helps to educate the IT Operations Management community about what is possible with real-time analysis of wire data. Prior to ExtraHop, Tyson worked as a technical marketing writer for Microsoft, Seagate, and the Association of Computing Machinery, where he wrote for and edited the TechNews e-mail newsletter from 2000 to 2005. You can find him on Twitter under @tsupasat.
Posts by Tyson Supasatit
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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.
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Hunter or Hunted ... Which Would You Rather Be?
While most organizations are left reeling after attacks, leading security teams are getting proactive about defense.
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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.
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Splunk Agrees: Wire Data Adds Crucial Context to Logs
More analytics leaders recognize the need for wire data to provide unbiased and definitive data to fill the gaps left by logs.
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Lightboard Video: The Silent Scream in Your Datacenter
Monitoring your data combined with security measures, improve your tactical data timeline.
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Data Gravity: What It Is and Why You Should Care
How to solve the problem of data gravity using machine learning for cloud analytics.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The Results Are In: "State of ITOA" Survey
- August 26, 2015
- Posted in Company, Good Reads
Industry-research firm TechValidate surveyed IT professionals to find out what IT organizations' plans were for IT Operations Analytics.
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How Lockheed Martin Uses Wire Data For Situational Awareness
- August 13, 2015
- Posted in Company, Good Reads, IT Operation Analytics, Security, Wire Data Analytics
Eric Sharpsten, CTO of Lockheed Martin's Federal Health practice, discusses how his organization gains visibility in large, dynamic IT environments.
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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…
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The Big Data Opportunity for Healthcare with HL7 Analytics
- November 5, 2014
- Posted in Company, Analysis, Good Reads, Healthcare, Industry Trends, Wire Data 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…
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Neuter the POODLE: Detect All SSLv3 Clients and Servers with ExtraHop
- October 15, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Industry Trends, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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IT Is Drowning in Data, But Thirsty for Insight
- September 12, 2014
- Posted in Company, Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Healthcare, Industry Trends
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…
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Why IT Needs a Culture of Healthy Paranoia
- September 3, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Security
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…
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See Which World Cup Matches Are Popular in Your Office
- June 18, 2014
- Posted in Company, Analysis, News, Good Reads
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…
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Server Decommissioning: Wait, We Have How Many DNS Servers?!
- May 29, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Security, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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Run Your "Microsoft Shop" Better with Wire Data Visibility
- May 13, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Industry Trends
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…
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Target's Data Breach: What IT Pros on LinkedIn Had to Say
- May 1, 2014
- Posted in Analysis, News, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Security, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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Tears of Joy: Fixing Retail Web Application Performance
- April 23, 2014
- Posted in Analysis, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Stories from the IT Trenches
Vincent Yesue is a member of the ExtraHop Solutions Architecture team. In the retail industry, slow web application performance means abandoned shopping carts online, and long lines and frustrated…
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Detect Heartbleed Exploits with ExtraHop's Free Download
- April 11, 2014
- Posted in Company, Tech, Analysis, News, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Security
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…
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More Time with Patients, Less Time Waiting for the Application
- April 4, 2014
- Posted in News, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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HTTP Compression and Other ADC Optimization Wins
- March 15, 2014
- Posted in Citrix, Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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You Should Never Send to Know "For Whom the SYN ACKs"
- February 17, 2014
- Posted in Community, Company, Tech, News, Good Reads
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…
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Paying Down Technical Debt in Your IT Infrastructure
- February 15, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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Monitoring at Scale: Questions You Should Ask Your Vendor
- February 1, 2014
- Posted in Analysis, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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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…
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ExtraHop Provides Wire Data Insight for XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5
- January 28, 2014
- Posted in Company, Tech, Industry Trends
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…
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What IT Can Learn from Target's Data Breach
- January 3, 2014
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Security, Stories from the IT Trenches
[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…
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Four Data Sources for IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) – A Conceptual Framework
- October 23, 2013
- Posted in Company, Analysis, Good Reads, IT Operation Analytics, Wire Data Analytics
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…
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Transaction Tracing for Web Gateways, Load Balancers, and Other Proxies
- September 18, 2013
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Industry Trends, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…
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Wire Data: The Visibility You Need for Microsoft Environments
- June 5, 2013
- Posted in Analysis, News, Good Reads
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…
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Monitoring the Performance of Citrix XenDesktop 7 with ExtraHop
- May 22, 2013
- Posted in Citrix, News, Good Reads, Industry Trends
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…
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Reimagining Packet Capture in Light of Riverbed's Opnet Acquisition
- November 15, 2012
- Posted in Company, Tech, Analysis, News, Good Reads, Industry Trends
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…
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Case Study: DevOps Collaboration with Application Performance Management (APM)
- October 24, 2012
- Posted in APM and NPM, Company, Tech, Analysis, News, Good Reads, Healthcare, Industry Trends, Stories from the IT Trenches
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…