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
5.20.14
The Return of the Generalist in IT
I recently spoke at Citrix Synergy about the return of the generalist. It was a Geek Speak Live! session with several hundred Citrix engineers in attendance. It was an honor for me and something I've…
John Smith
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
4.29.14
How ExtraHop's IT Team Performed a Heartbleed Audit Going Back Years
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…
Bri Hatch
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
3.7.14
How Retailers Can Protect Themselves from POS Malware
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…
John Smith
2.27.14
How McKesson Found the Perfect Rx for Slow Citrix Apps with ExtraHop
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…
Rachel Pepple
2.23.14
Five Ways to Strengthen Healthcare IT Security with Wire Data Analytics
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…
Mitchell Schwartz
2.5.14
ExtraHop Dominates Network World's 2014 APM "Shootout"
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…
Chris Blessington
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
1.9.14
What's Next for Cloud Computing? Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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…
Rachel Pepple
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
11.8.13
How to Accelerate Cloud Migration with In-Depth AWS Monitoring
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…
Rachel Pepple
10.4.13
Healthcare in the Digital Age: Obamacare and the Information Security Imperative
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…
Rachel Pepple
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
9.3.13
Six Reasons Your Security Toolset Needs to Include Wire Data Analytics
Unlike IDS/IPS that use signatures, ExtraHop identifies threats by providing context—trends and real historical activity.Every year, the stakes get higher for IT organizations trying to prevent data…
Chris Abella
8.27.13
Making SDN Work: The Need for Persistent Visibility
In recent years, software-defined networking (SDN) has emerged as one of the hottest topics in enterprise and data center networking. While its proponents promise unprecedented performance…
Rachel Pepple
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