Not all IT problems come under the domain of the network engineer. In my previous Blog , I talked about IT shops having a hodge-podge set of tools. There are various reasons, but the real inefficiency is when these tools perform the same functions. There becomes a time and need to look at the IT problems from different perspectives. A few examples below: Kenn Nied, Senior Network Engineer at WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, illustrates this encounter. While looking at OpManager from a networking point of view, the operator sees alerts that a few switches and a firewall are unresponsive. Is it faulty equipment or an attack? Then turning to a Security mindset, he looks at ManageEngine Device Expert to see real time and historical configuration changes. In one case, it was identified that there was a Firewall rule change made and realized it was a misconfiguration that caused the switch unresponsive. Diagnostic time was minimal. Albert E.
Riverbed Device Monitoring in NetFlow Analyzer
Application performance over WAN can be improved by using various technologies like QoS policing, Preventing unwanted traffic imposing ACL, deploying WAN accelerators etc. .
Aligning Compliance and Security
Compliance and security aren't the same, but they are often related, and even when they are at odds we need to accomplish both.
PCI, Compliance, and Security
Some people seem to be confused about compliance- some hate it, a few like it, and some really like to argue about it, especially when it comes to PCI-DSS.
Up2Date 7.003 released [Middle]
This Up2Date fixes several bugs: important, annoying and cosmetic, improves performance of V7 and introduces three new features: USB Stick as configuration storage, NAT support for multiple L2TP over IPSec connections and support for wildcards in exceptions. Performance Improvements The overall system performance has been vastly improved. Memory and disk usage have also been reduced in many areas, such as with packet forwarding, AV scanning, temporary http downloads, self-monitoring, IPS hardware acceleration and logging