Varonis is a data security platform designed to protect your data from inside threats and prevent it from breaches. It will identify and inspect unusual behavior, privilege escalations, and unauthorized…
Poor server performance usually occurs when a database is not properly maintained. A single SQL query configured to collect information from a DB, can waste useful resources and degrade the…
Spiceworks provided a nice free network monitoring tool that had many of the important features of the major providers in the field and it was free to use thanks to…
Almost every single piece of equipment in your infrastructure has the ability to be monitored using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) protocol. The issue is that many admins overlook the…
Updating and Patching your Servers, Desktops and Network Devices is MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER – Avoid Ransomware & Cryptolocker issues and STAYED PATCHED!
Some time ago, I was involved in a short project where a particular data center was unavailable (or access was very slow). Our task was to find out what the…
The BYOD (Bring your on Device) era is in full swing, and what better way to know where your bandwidth is being allocated and used than to monitor your WiFi…
System Monitoring is without question one of the most important tasks for IT admins, because it helps them guarantee that all servers are working at top performance. While Windows’s own…
As a network increases in size and importance, so does the need to ensure the network runs (and keeps running) effectively. To achieve this, it is necessary not only to…
MRTG, Multi Router Traffic Grapher, is a great tool that is written in Perl that gives your details about networked devices that can be polled and monitored using SNMP. In…