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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…
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…
War Room Chronicles: ExtraHop's TME Podcast (For Great Justice!)
- Colin Walker
- April 24, 2015
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…
FTP Dashboard: Detect and Mitigate FTP Data Leaks
- Ken Pickles
- February 5, 2015
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…
Turla Trojan Tactics Trounced
- Colin Walker
- January 7, 2015
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…
Community: The Icing on Your ExtraHop & Why I'm Here
- Colin Walker
- December 17, 2014
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…
Neuter the POODLE: Detect All SSLv3 Clients and Servers with ExtraHop
- Tyson Supasatit
- October 15, 2014
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…
See Who's Using (or Abusing) Your Network
- Anna Brown
- August 1, 2014
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…
ExtraHop ♥ Visio Stencils
- Jon Garrison
- June 23, 2014
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…
How to Move Beyond "Mean-Time-to-Innocence"
- Matt Weaver
- June 10, 2014
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…
Server Decommissioning: Wait, We Have How Many DNS Servers?!
- Tyson Supasatit
- May 29, 2014
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…
The Return of the Generalist in IT
- John Smith
- May 20, 2014
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…