8.12.15
Why I Joined ExtraHop: One Security Expert's Story
Mike Sheward explains why wire data provides security professionals with the context they need to protect ever-changing environments.
Mike Sheward
8.4.15
Citrix Admin? John Smith's Blog Can Make Your Life Easier
Citrix administrators can take their days back and stop troubleshooting other teams' problems with John Smith's advice.
Chase Snyder
7.24.15
Using Math Adds Up to Better Alerts
Learn how using the right weighting models can drastically improve your IT monitoring system's alerts
Amanda Tillman
7.20.15
Is Your Job Candidate Technical Enough?
"She's not technical enough." Earlier in my career I worked with a tech company that almost lost a great candidate due to this feedback from the initial interviewer. The candidate had a passion for…
Stacey Stovall
7.13.15
Tech Tip of the Week: How to Find Expired Certificates On Your Network
This week we're sharing a quick down-and-dirty video guide to finding expiring and expired certificates in your network. ExtraHop makes it easy to find not only expired certs, but which servers those…
Chris Abella
6.30.15
A Portrait of the Artist as an IT Guy
When I ask a business leader what their top 3 challenges are, they instantly respond: "You mean my top three IT challenges?" They want to give me a list of technology problems: "I hate our mail…
John Matthews
6.22.15
What Can IT Learn from the OPM Hack?
The recent revelations about the data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are alarming, to put it mildly. During the year that attackers went undetected, attackers stole the forms…
Tony Gomez
6.15.15
Need Visibility into AWS Applications? Conga Gets it with ExtraHop
Conga, a leading provider of Salesforce.com productivity applications, had the best kind of problem: customers were lining up to use their applications. Now they had to figure out how to quickly scale…
Olivia Schouboe Elzinga
6.5.15
ITOA Spotlight: Turning IT Into a Profit Center
"What started as a back-end IT tool is helping turn the IT department into a profit center for the company." That's how service-level engineer Todd Williams of MEDHOST describes ExtraHop in a recent…
Chase Snyder
5.4.15
Real-User Monitoring's Next Frontier: Context, Context, Context!
Since the early days of the Internet, site owners and admins have craved deeper, more meaningful insight into user experience. Knowing what happens when someone visits your site is strategically…
Chase Snyder
4.27.15
Guide to Building Stellar ExtraHop Dashboards, Part II: Chart Types
Click image to zoom A custom FTP dashboard built to display essential FTP metrics. Previously in this blog series:In part one of this blog series, The Step-by-Step Guide to Building Stellar ExtraHop…
Nojan Moshiri
4.24.15
War Room Chronicles: ExtraHop's TME Podcast (For Great Justice!)
A white paper will always be a white paper. It will be long, likely densely packed with (hopefully useful) technical information about a product. It will take time to consume, probably cover a…
Colin Walker
4.22.15
Step-by-Step Guide: HL7 Analytics with ExtraHop
HL7 data is crucial to the healthcare industry, and the ability to extract meaningful insights from HL7 messages in real-time can help organizations improve patient outcomes, boost security, and save…
Terry Shaver
4.17.15
Outranging HTTP.sys Range-Based Attacks, Trigger Style
If you've been watching the news in the tech space this week you've probably seen plenty going on in regards to HTTP.sys. A couple days ago ( April 15) a new CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures…
Colin Walker
4.9.15
The Step-by-Step Guide to Building Stellar ExtraHop Dashboards
A custom dashboard built to track order fulfillment in a warehouse. In this post, we will show how to build a custom dashboard like this one. At a recent ExtraHop user forum, users asked for guidance…
Nojan Moshiri
4.9.15
ExtraHop Top5: April 8, 2015
Welcome, intrepid reader, to the inaugural (read: first of many) ExtraHop Top5s. "But what is this greatness of which you speak?" you ask. The Top5 slices, it dices, it'll even fold your laundry…
Colin Walker
2.19.15
The Four Data Sets Essential for IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)
[This is the second post in a multi-part series, last updated on April 11, 2016. Read the first post: The Big Idea Behind IT Operations Analytics (ITOA): IT Big Data] In my previous article, I…
Erik Giesa
2.5.15
FTP Dashboard: Detect and Mitigate FTP Data Leaks
Most administrators rarely understand their FTP traffic profile until it's too late. The following are some basic questions every administrator should know when trying to secure their data: How…
Ken Pickles
1.7.15
Turla Trojan Tactics Trounced
About a month or so back, just before the holiday stretch set in for many of us here in North America, Ars Technica put out an article depicting a new vector for Turla, namely a "Powerful, highly…
Colin Walker
12.17.14
Community: The Icing on Your ExtraHop & Why I'm Here
Some days I just frackin' love what I do. Taking a figurative hammer to the metaphorical tough nut in the form of a complex problem and cracking that baby wide open is just plain fun. Getting to use…
Colin Walker
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