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How ExtraHop's IT Team Performed a Heartbleed Audit Going Back Years
- Bri Hatch
- April 29, 2014
Bri Hatch is Director of IT at ExtraHop. ExtraHop IT's motto is "Always Working in the Background."Recently, I delivered the results of a Heartbleed audit to our executives showing that no one had…
Detect Heartbleed Exploits with ExtraHop's Free Download
- Tyson Supasatit
- April 11, 2014
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…
How Retailers Can Protect Themselves from POS Malware
- John Smith
- March 7, 2014
ExtraHop offers the digital equivalent to CCTV for your environment. The Target data breach continues to garner headlines, with the most recent news being the resignation of the CIO. But while the…
How McKesson Found the Perfect Rx for Slow Citrix Apps with ExtraHop
- Rachel Pepple
- February 27, 2014
Over the past decade, healthcare has grown to be the largest industry in the US, accounting for roughly 20 percent of GDP and 13 percent of the U.S. workforce. If there's ever been an industry where…
Five Ways to Strengthen Healthcare IT Security with Wire Data Analytics
- Mitchell Schwartz
- February 23, 2014
A Chicago Tribune article recently carried an ominous headline: "Healthcare organizations under siege from cyberattacks, study says." According to the SANS-Norse report cited in the article, 375…
ExtraHop Dominates Network World's 2014 APM "Shootout"
- Chris Blessington
- February 5, 2014
You've heard the old saying, "Never bring a knife to a gun fight." Well, ExtraHop clearly had its guns blazing for Network World's 2014 "APM Shootout" and won by a landslide. With an overall score of…
ExtraHop Provides Wire Data Insight for XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5
- Tyson Supasatit
- January 28, 2014
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…
What's Next for Cloud Computing? Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- Rachel Pepple
- January 9, 2014
View the full-size "Cloud Retrospective" infographic at TechTarget. This week, TechTarget released an infographic, called "Cloud Retrospective," tracing the origins, evolution, and adoption of cloud…
What IT Can Learn from Target's Data Breach
- Tyson Supasatit
- January 3, 2014
[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…
How to Accelerate Cloud Migration with In-Depth AWS Monitoring
- Rachel Pepple
- November 8, 2013
ExtraHop helps IT organizations optimize their AWS deployments. According to recent research from Gartner, the public cloud market—including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers such as…
Healthcare in the Digital Age: Obamacare and the Information Security Imperative
- Rachel Pepple
- October 4, 2013
State healthcare insurance exchanges experienced many technical issued when they launched on October 1. On October 1st, the opening of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) healthcare exchanges, and the many…
Transaction Tracing for Web Gateways, Load Balancers, and Other Proxies
- Tyson Supasatit
- September 18, 2013
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…