It goes without saying – software products operating in the IT Security space should offer rock solid security. These products should be devoid of holes and vulnerabilities; otherwise, they will prove to be haven for hackers and malicious insiders
April 2012 Patch Tuesday Bulletins are now Supported by Desktop Central
Microsoft April 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 April 10 , 2012 at 23:00 EST
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer’s Medianet reporting – Highlights & tidbits from Cisco LIVE 2012 – Australia
Cisco LIVE – 2012, Australia was just wrapped up less than a week ago and here we present here some updates on that. We had the opportunity to interact with a lot of professionals from the networking industry which included customers and prospective customers. Out of those, here is a small sample of what most of our customers feel about us: Apart from this, we had NetFlow Analyzer’s Medianet(and Mediatrace) monitoring capabilities mentioned by Cisco in their presentations
How to prevent DoS attacks?
DoS attacks are one of the most dreaded form of network attacks among Enterprises and SMBs since they could paralyze network activity completely. The after-effects of these attacks are even more that they have a long-standing impact on the image of the brand if the company caters to the consumer segment. If Amazon has a DoS attack on its network, it will hit the headlines in a few hours.
March Madness is here. Will your Enterprise Network remain sane?
The annual NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship season has started and we will soon see the frenzy reaching its peak with the regional semifinals scheduled for 22nd, Thursday and 23rd, Friday of this month. March Madness causes a decrease in enterprise productivity with employees watching streaming videos (including High Definition), reading or checking game stats online. Add to this, employees updating their opinion or commenting on someone else’s through social media tools like Facebook and Twitter, and your network is bound to see a lot more madness
Launch secure, browser-based Windows RDP, SSH and Telnet sessions from Password Manager Pro
Launching remote login sessions: Ease of use Vs Security Organizations are deploying privileged password management solutions to mitigate cyber threats and control access to sensitive IT resources. Access requirements themselves are changing in response to evolving business demands such as partners and contractors requiring remote access to internal resources. In turn, IT is seeking solutions that are secure, easy to use and let end users launch a remote login session with a single click, regardless of the target system type or authentication method and, at times, without disclosing the passwords.
New in Applications Manager: VMware vFabric RabbitMQ Monitoring and more
We recently released version 10.3 of Applications Manager.
Network Latency Monitoring in NetFlow Analyzer
Majority of corporate network is switching to MPLS from Frame Relay networks. MPLS network are more faster, easy to manage and reliable. Despite of faster data transfer through MPLS network do suffer delay or latency.
Flexible NetFlow configuration in Cisco 4500 with Supervisor Engine 7-E and Cisco IOS XE
Catalyst 4500 series switches with Supervisor Engine 7-E and Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.1.0 SG supports Flexible NetFlow. Hence we thought of sharing the configuration information with you. The configuration of Flexible NetFlow in these switches is similar to the other regular Flexible NetFlow .
Cyber-attack on Zappos: Information Security Lessons for Enterprises [Part-5]
In the previous four posts , we analyzed the causes for security incidents. We discussed how lack of internal controls, access restrictions, centralized management, accountability, strong policies, haphazard style of privileged password management and lack of proper activity monitoring give room for security incidents