Best Practices: How Network Monitors Should Monitor
What monitors offer the best view of your network?
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What monitors offer the best view of your network?
In the world of network monitoring, credentials are the account and password details for every network, system, or required device that allows access.
As IT pros already know, when we speak of ports, we mean the 16-bit virtual ports used when interconnecting systems i.e. during communication over protocols such as TCP or UDP and not physical connections on the system such as USB, HDMI etc. See the OSI model and list of port numbers and their assigned function if not an IT pro. Port 80 is commonly used for HTTP activity, for example, and many applications communicate using assigned default ports.
With VPN monitoring you can track your virtual private network’s (VPN) connections, their paths, and all available tunnels.
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There are a lot of IIS-based websites. Many shops started with one core site, and now have a mess of sites they need to keep running – and performing well enough to keep customers coming back.
The old line ‘What you don't know can't hurt you’ is dead wrong when it comes to network security. What you don't know is exactly what will hurt you.
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