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Network monitoring can be the most indispensable tool in a professional's toolbox because it offers a deep understanding of IT infrastructure.
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For most IT organizations, network monitoring is an essential tool. Network monitoring tools play an important role in letting IT pros get complete visibility into the status of network devices, systems, and applications, keeping the IT team aware of problems with services, networks, application performance, and more.
For most IT organizations, network monitoring is an essential tool. Network monitoring tools play an important role in letting IT pros get complete visibility into the status of network devices, systems, and applications, keeping the IT team aware of problems with services, networks, application performance, and more.
But despite Network Monitoring's reputation as an IT Swiss-Army Knife, Security is one area where these tools are rarely used to their full potential.
That's too bad because you can easily put the data and insights generated by network monitoring to good use for security purposes.
With a little tweaking and creative thinking, you can put the information, alerts, and reports that network monitoring tools are designed to give to work beefing up your security posture.
And in a world where 68% of all data breaches took months or longer to discover, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), who wouldn't want all the help they can get monitoring for breaches?
And because most organizations already use these tools, they can provide added security value without the cost of a new tool. That's good news for organizations with a limited budget for security tools.
In our newest eBook, 4 Ways to Strengthen Data Security With Network Monitoring, we'll give you four techniques you can use to put your network monitoring solution to work for security. Check out a brief synopsis of each technique below, and be sure to download the full eBook, available here, for more.
With a modern network monitoring tool, you can set up email notifications and alerts for changes to the configuration of network devices, and audit configuration against defined policies. WhatsUp Gold also lets users view and compare device configurations in the device properties page, and if configurations are lost, you can automate network device configuration backups for any device that supports Telnet or SSH.
With a modern network monitoring tool, like WhatsUp Gold, you can easily monitor for CPU spikes and set up alerts for when CPU usage exceeds 90% (or any other threshold you want) on machines that don't regularly perform CPU-intensive tasks. This is a simple way to keep track of your machines and find out if there's anything strange going on.
By monitoring real-time bandwidth usage and historical bandwidth trends, network flow monitoring can proactively identify security issues like DDoS attacks, unauthorized downloading and other suspicious and potentially malicious network behavior.
With WhatsUp Gold, you can alert administrators when users access the Dark Web (Tor) with a feature that monitors all Network Traffic Analyzer Sources and can alert admins when any host exceeds a configurable number of connections to known Tor ports during a set period. This allows administrators to control access to the Dark Web by their users.
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Network monitoring can be the most indispensable tool in a professional's toolbox because it offers a deep understanding of IT infrastructure.
Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated.
Quality of service can be viewed as measuring the performance of a network or telephone service, thereby providing an indication of its quality.
A network key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurement and benchmark for achieving optimal network performance goals. To support these goals, measuring actual performance against the KPI goals helps the network team make decisions to improve and sustain network performance and service levels.
A Domain Name System (DNS) helps convert your domain names into accessible IP addresses, and it is crucial to understand how to monitor activity on a DNS server.
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Any IT pro worth their salt knows all about adopting cloud computing and its benefits, from faster innovation cycles to flexible deployment.
WhatsUp Gold release 2023.1 includes several exciting updates meant to close gaps in Network Visibility.
Zero Trust is ever more vital as enterprises move to the cloud and the workforce becomes more remote.
Public sector organizations including federal, state and local government, military, education, law enforcement, transit, public health care and myriad others, have needs very different from their commercial counterparts.
IT teams within enterprise companies must monitor multiple infrastructure components and use syslogs to assist with their day-to-day jobs.
Gartner published an official Market Guide for Infrastructure and Operations leaders who are looking to upgrade their infrastructure tech stack.
Server monitoring is necessary for any IT department in companies of any size. Learn why server monitoring is crucial and how to improve your own server monitoring practices.
Several server monitoring tools are on the market for enterprise-level companies and early-stage startups. But which one is going to work best for your organization's infrastructure?
What is application performance management (APM) and how can it help your digital products?
Since disagreement exists on what the term network observability actually means.
Understanding a network’s performance across multiple devices can make or break an application’s performance—which in turn affects the application experience.
Meeting internal SLAs and managing vendor SLAs are critical IT mandates.
Network traffic analysis is a process utilized to monitor incoming network traffic for overall performance, security and assorted maintenance issues. Learn more about the ins and outs of network traffic analysis (NTA), the benefits and more.
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