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

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 …

Facts Revealed: Beyond Microsoft Partner Technology Advisor’s Mythbusters

  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

NetFlow Analyzer: Traffic monitoring in MPLS type of Network is made Easy

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.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer: Traffic Analysis and Bandwidth Monitoring

Are you trying to monitor your network traffic ? Then you will need to consider ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer as the first solution because it is a solid tool with user friendly UI  and easy to use software. It is also listed in the ‘ Products of the week ’ listing by Network World Pre-Requisite:- The Pre-Requisite is simple.

Take our survey on Storage Area Network (SAN) monitoring

We have been working on enhancing our storage monitoring capabilities (SAN & NAS) as part of our efforts to provide better real-time visibility into application performance. We’re planning to roll out built-in support for major storage vendors like EMC, IBM, NetApp, Dell, HP and Hitachi in Applications Manager. That would mean keeping tabs on the performance of applications as well as storage devices from a single management console

NetFlow configuration for Vyatta router

One of our customers wanted to know the configuration for NetFlow for the Vyatta router. For the benefit of many others who may need it, here it is: Please configure NetFlow on your Vyatta router as mentioned below: set system flow-accounting interface // This command should be issued for each interface you want to monitor set system flow-accounting netflow server port 9996 // Specifies a NetFlow collector to which to export Netflow data set system flow-accounting netflow sampling-rate rate // Specifies the rate at which packets are sampled for statistics. set system flow-accounting netflow version 9 // Specifies the Netflow format that data will be exported in

Uninterrupted Enterprise Network Monitoring

Much has been said and written about how important it is for networks to be highly available and how critical it is for a business, given the pace at which an enterprise network grows, and how the dynamics keep evolving and changing over time.  When the networks grow to accommodate the demands of an expanding enterprise business, the enterprise monitoring needs seem to get more and more complex.  Delivering high availability and disaster recovery is the mantra to successful, uninterrupted enterprise network monitoring. In this post, lets see how the high availability of an enterprise network can be ensured..

Better QoS policies: Better Cost savings

Cost – effectiveness is the common term that we are hearing or seeing nowadays and this exists in all forms on the globe, In this tough economic situation the motive of Network Administrator should be optimizing the current infrastructure for future accommodation . Optimization plays a major role when it comes to distributed network architecture or MPLS network