4.22.16
TCP Analysis: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 2
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…
Eric Thomas
9.24.15
New Community Forums are Live!
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…
Colin Walker
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
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
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
8.1.14
See Who's Using (or Abusing) Your Network
Note: The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is no longer being actively maintained or updated, but all of the functions described in this post still apply to existing DE licenses and Enterprise Editions of…
Anna Brown
6.23.14
ExtraHop ♥ Visio Stencils
Turning ideas into infrastructure means one thing to IT Architects, engineers, and technicians: diagrams. And usually the idea-to-infrastructure process begins with Visio. Before joining ExtraHop's…
Jon Garrison
6.10.14
How to Move Beyond "Mean-Time-to-Innocence"
Click on the image to see a larger version of the MTTI decision tree. ExtraHop helps to abolish MTTI with correlated, cross-tier visibility. You may have heard of the tongue-in-cheek term…
Matt Weaver
5.29.14
Server Decommissioning: Wait, We Have How Many DNS Servers?!
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…
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
5.7.14
Seattle Children's Busts the "Ghost in the Machine" with ExtraHop
Like many hospitals, Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute relies heavily on a Citrix-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to provide doctors and nurses with access to critical data…
Rachel Pepple
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
4.10.14
DevOps Hearts Race While CISO Looks for Heartbleed
The Heartbleed vulnerability enables attackers to steal private keys. OpenSSL 1.0.1 through OpenSSL 1.0.1f are vulnerable. I was in a meeting with a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a…
Vihar Chokshi
4.4.14
More Time with Patients, Less Time Waiting for the Application
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…
Tyson Supasatit
3.17.14
Why I Joined ExtraHop: It's All About 20Gbps in Real-Time
[4/16/2018 - Editor's update: ExtraHop has now released a 100 Gbps appliance. Read more in our blog post: How ExtraHop Analyzes 1 PB+ Per Day Without Breaking a Sweat] Vihar is a Senior Systems…
Vihar Chokshi
3.15.14
HTTP Compression and Other ADC Optimization Wins
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…
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
