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Backup on the Wire: Recover Ransomware-Encrypted Files from Packet Capture
- Kanen Clement
- August 25, 2016
Instead of ransoming your encrypted files, recover the originals from a packet capture.
The Human Impact of Hyperscale IT Failure
- Isaac Roybal
- August 11, 2016
How do you reap the benefits of hyperscale IT while minimizing the risk of complex system failures that hurt your business, and, worst of all, hurt your customers?
How to Automatically Detect and Block Ransomware
- Tom Roeh
- July 13, 2016
Cybercriminals upped their game, so we're upping ours (and yours.) Learn how to detect and stop ransomware automatically.
Monitoring Active Directory, the How and Why
- Aaron Paxson
- May 16, 2016
Active Directory is at the center of so many corporate IT systems. Here's how and why you should be monitoring it.
For Ransomware Detection, Behavior Beats Signatures
- Tom Roeh
- May 11, 2016
We use four detection methods to provide early warning so IT teams can stop ransomware attacks in progress before the damage is done. The methods are...
Stream Processing vs. Continuous PCAP: The Big Shift in Monitoring Architectures
- Raja Mukerji
- May 9, 2016
Enterprise IT monitoring is undergoing a major shift, and stream processing architectures are going to come out on top.
What Is LDAP, and Who Needs It Anyway?
- Colin Walker
- April 25, 2016
Get an up-to-date definition of LDAP and quickly understand the impact - both positive and potentially negative - this protocol brings to an organization.
TCP Analysis: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 2
- Eric Thomas
- April 22, 2016
A diagram of the OSI Model. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we imagined the perfect framework for no-impact monitoring of an application stack and found it was right in front of us all along in…
The Big Idea Behind IT Operations Analytics (ITOA): IT Big Data
- Erik Giesa
- April 11, 2016
Learn what's driving the growth of IT operations analytics and how ITOA is data-driven, borrowing a lot from from Big Data principles.
Build Custom Metrics for Any Application
- John McGovern
- October 20, 2015
How to turn raw data from any application into useful metrics with Javascript-based application inspection triggers for improved IT operations analytics.
Happy ICD-10 Day! Here's Some Required Reading for a Smooth Switch
- Chase Snyder
- October 1, 2015
Required reading now that the new ICD-10 medical coding standard is required across the U.S.
New Community Forums are Live!
- Colin Walker
- September 24, 2015
Community interactions, often via forums, social media, etc., are a thing. They're a thing that most of us rely on, to varying degrees, every day. Whether you're choosing the appropriate solution to…