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Allowing temporary access to sensitive IT resources
Assume the scenario below: You administer a sensitive IT resource – a database in production network containing important data. An emergency troubleshooting situation arises. A developer has to be provided time-limited, temporary access to the DBMS, say for a day
Let Priority of the business define your workflow & not your requesters – Help Desk Tips & Tricks
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Network Performance Monitoring and Traffic Analytics on a Single box
If you are looking for a complete Network monitoring solution to monitor the performance and traffic through your network devices, here is a powerful Network Forensics and Fault Management tool called OpManager and NetFlow Plug-IN along with it. This section is more about NetFlow Plug-IN for OpManager and difference between NetFlow Plug-IN and standalone version of NetFlow Analyzer. ManageEngine OpManager Overview :- ManageEngine
How do you deploy configuration changes to production network?
Administrators working on production networks often face the need to carry out changes to the configurations of switches, routers, firewalls and other devices. The change could be a trivial one to modify a minor setting or might be a major one like upgrading the firmware. In both the scenarios, configuration changes to a device in production network requires planning, coordination, attention, diligence and visibility
More security to your network through ASAM
If you are looking for a tool to monitor and keep a watch on the overall security snapshot of the network, then NetFlow Analyzer along with the Advanced Security Analytics Module is the perfect fit for you. This module along with traditional IDS offers that additional bit of security your network needs in order to detect any anomalies in the network in a more intelligent & sensible manner.
Performance based IT Shop Part 2
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.
Configuring Extreme Switches to export sFlow information.
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Managing Risk: Rapidly responding to security alerts from network device vendors
Assume the scenario below: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) publishes an important security alert Releases an advisory suggesting firmware upgrage of routers The security issue on hand is quite serious, urgent and cannot be ignored Impact assessment of devices suggests firmware upgrade of more than 1500 routers to be done immediately Network administrators working on production networks involving a large number of network devices such as switches, routers, firewalls and other devices would have often faced a situation similar to the one above. Effectively managing risk is an important aspect of network security. But, manual process for reacting to security alerts is not only time-consuming, but also error-prone
An automated solution to enforce IT policy on standard password practices
Growing instances of information security incidents have forced IT enterprises to put an effective IT policy in place. All such policies stress three essentials, among the numerous guidelines: Usage of unique, strong passwords across all IT resources Rotating the passwords at periodic intervals Role-based access controls for IT resources Enforcing the IT policy with respect to the privileged passwords turns out to be a daunting task to carry out manually.