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Cyber-attack on Zappos: Information Security Lessons for Enterprises [Part-4]

By on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | No Comments

In the previous three posts in the backdrop of the cyber-attack on Zappos.com, we analyzed the challenges associated with achieving the highest level of information security in enterprises and the causes for security incidents. In part-3 of this series, we discussed how lack of internal controls, access restrictions, centralized management, accountability, strong policies and haphazard style of privileged password management give room for security incidents. Let us now analyze the activity monitoring scenario …

Activity monitoring – scenario today:

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Webinar – ‘NetFlow – The De Facto Standard for Traffic Analytics’

By on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | No Comments

With ever-growing enterprise networks, a lot of concerns arise with regard to network usage. Traffic analytics becomes a key aspect in order to ensure:

* Productive usage of the network bandwidth

* Secure network

* Continuous availability of the network 

and a lot of other associated factors. 


The dependence on the network is ever-increasing. This dependence in a way boosts productivity of the organization but the flip-side is that the bandwidth usage for applications other than that concerning business will heavily impact the flow of business activities. Unproductive bandwidth usage leads to bandwidth competition between the different applications using the network. This could even lead to network sluggishness and outage. 

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Facts Revealed: Beyond Microsoft Partner Technology Advisor’s Mythbusters

By on Friday, February 17th, 2012 | No Comments


 In Reponse to

http://www.microsoftnow.com/2012/02/how-a-manageengine-partner-spreads-fud.html


Facts Behind Mythbuster #1

I agree, It’s absurd to compare ManageEngine products with a complete enterprise-gas (oops class)
Datacenter/Private Cloud management Suite from Microsoft. It’s possible that
ManageEngine resellers expected Microsoft products to work out-of-the-box like
ManageEngine products. Maybe they just downloaded the Microsoft SCOM and
expected to see Linux and Unix management instantly. They did not know the
detailed procedure 

 

  • Installing SCOM is a detailed
    process
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NetFlow Analyzer: Traffic monitoring in MPLS type of Network is made Easy

By on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Frame Relay network are now being converted to MPLS type of network more rapidly. MPLS type of network helps the Network Administrators to easily manage the Network and MPLS network architecture is simple than traditional Frame Relay or packet switching networks.

Monitoring Network traffic through NetFlow export becomes very handy in MPLS type of networks. Consider a network which has below given architecture:

Task of an Administrator:-

Given task for Administrator is  to monitor internet traffic of Site A, Site B and traffic between Site A and Site B. The Administrator of this network is using NetFlow Analyzer and monitoring all the Site Routers and Internet Router .

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Network Management Trends in 2012 and ManageEngine IT360

By on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 | No Comments


I
was researching a few sites related to Network Management and came across an
interesting article on Network technology trends in 2012 with specific relation
to Network Management. The author,

Jim Frey

,
Research Director at

Enterprise
Management Associates

[EMA] says, there are 3 key areas that one must look
at, in 2012:

  1. Cross Domain management operations
  2. SaaS based network management






  3. Performance SLAs in Cloud monitoring

You may refer to this link for details: 

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/news/2240112990/Network-technology-trends-for-2012-Network-management?asrc=EM_NLN_16087464&track=NL-79&ad=859819&;;;;;;;

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Integrated Physical & Virtual Servers Management

By on Thursday, February 16th, 2012 | No Comments

A recent study on what business enterprises expect from a performance management system, has shown that of IT professionals are looking for a solution that offers integrated performance management of both, the physical and the virtual IT infrastructure.

With more and more businesses talking about data consolidation and virtualization in the same breadth, it is clear that the industry acknowledges the huge advantages of embracing virtualization. Moving to virtualization to leverage the operational benefits, the scalability, notable cut on the costs, and improved services, the management needs of the IT infrastructure keep evolving.

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February 2012 Patch Tuesday Bulletins are now Supported by Desktop Central

By on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 | No Comments

Microsoft released 9 bulletins, on which 4 rated Critical and 5 rated Important addressing 21 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Microsoft .Net Framework on February 14, 2012 11:00 EST.

Microsoft February 2012 Patch Tuesday bulletins are now supported by Desktop Central. The patch assessment team at Desktop Central has tested the patches and have updated their online patch database on February 15, 2012 at 02:30 EST.

Update your vulnerability database to install the patches pertaining to the Security Bulletins:

MS12-008 – Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2660465)

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Application monitoring in NetFlow Analyzer – a video tutorial

By on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | No Comments

NetFlow Analyzer is a bandwidth monitoring tool which helps you make an
in-depth analysis about your network traffic. However, NetFlow Analyzer
can also be used for application monitoring.

Please view the video to know more:

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ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer

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Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for February 2012 Patch Tuesday

By on Monday, February 13th, 2012 | No Comments

Microsoft released their advance notification for
February 2012 patch Tuesday. Microsoft will release 9 bulletins on February 14, 2012 addressing 21 vulnerabilities.

Severity Rating

  • 4 bulletin are rated Critical
  • 5 bulletins are rated Important

Vulnerability Impact

  • 7 vulnerabilities can lead to Remote Code Execution
  • 2 vulnerabilities can lead to Elevation of Privilege

Affected Products:

  • All Supported Operating Systems.
  • Microsoft Office
  • Internet Explorer
  • Microsoft .Net Framework
  • Microsoft Silverlight

Once
the bulletins are released, the Patch Assessment team at Desktop
Central will test all the patches pertaining to these bulletins and
update their central patch database at the earliest.

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Track Your Website’s SSL Certificate Expiry Date Using Applications Manager

By on Friday, February 10th, 2012 | No Comments

In an era where online shopping is drastically growing and consumers are transacting sensitive information across the internet round the clock, you, as an organization, can never take a chance with website security.

After all the key to any business, is the trust you win out of your customer, and thus increasing customer loyalty.

For those of you, who are into e-business; dependent totally on online transactions, security and trust in your website can be the main factor that differentiates a standard visitor from a paying customer. Your customer needs reassurance that your business effectively protects their sensitive info from impingement and trespass.

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