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Finding Zen - How IT Ops and IT Security Can Work Together

Nov 17, 2020 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
It's no secret IT Ops and Security teams don't have the most glowing relationship. The simplistic reason is while Ops is responsible for making work and communication as seamless and accessible as possible (and therefore wants everything open), Security is focused on making it as difficult as possible for the wrong people to get inside (and therefore wants everything closed). But beyond the trite hot takes, fundamentally, both teams want to keep the bad guys out without stifling productivity. And when these two groups work together—Well, it’s magic. Timothy Brown, SolarWinds VP of Security, is here to tell you how to reduce friction with some advice and real-world examples.
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HAProxy Log Sampling

Nov 17, 2020 By Jim O'Connell In HAProxy

Log Sampling is a powerful feature introduced in HAProxy 2.0 that lets you define a percentage of your logs to create a representative view of your data allowing you to minimize your costs. Log files are the key to observability. They can provide helpful information that can be used for debugging as well as analytics that can be used to understand how users interact with an application.

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3 Key Trends From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

Nov 17, 2020 By Annette Hynes In Auvik
In the inaugural Network Vendor Diversity report, Auvik discovered high diversity in the network devices IT teams and MSPs were managing. In 2019, the data showed complexity continuing to rise as all categories became increasingly fragmented. In the 2020 edition, we look at the same four categories of managed network devices—access points, switches, routers, and firewalls—deployed across a sample of 30,000 networks, and compared the data to both 2018 and 2019.
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Full VPC traffic visibility with AWS Network Firewall and Sumo Logic

Nov 17, 2020 By Kevin Goldberg, Dan Wachdorf, Mike Lupiani, Olaf Stein, Dana Torgersen In Sumo Logic
We’re happy to partner with AWS on their launch of AWS Network Firewall by providing a cloud-native integration that gives customers real-time visibility into network traffic and automated correlated events surfaced by AWS. Too often, virtual private cloud (VPC) traffic is a black box leaving many security operations teams unable to connect potential threats to their broader infrastructure.
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How Interconnection Can Help Africa's Cloud And Data Centre Ecosystem

Nov 16, 2020 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect
2020 has been a significant year for Africa’s cloud and data centre ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across Sub-Saharan Africa and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate their adoption of cloud services in order to help them operate during these difficult times.
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Winning On Tomorrow's Interconnected Battlefields

Nov 16, 2020 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
With the U.S. national security plan highlighting the need for both information dominance and protection, the Department of Defense is considering plans like modernizing military networks to ensure more effective communications between warfighters and allies in the harshest of environments and recruiting the specialized talent required for battlefield domination. To begin, the DoD must bridge the gap between its ambitious vision and the capabilities of current military networks.
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5 key benefits of using an IP scanner

Nov 13, 2020 By OpUtils In ManageEngine

In todays IP-centric world, it’s becoming increasingly complex to support network-intensive adaptations like cloud adoption and bring your own device (BYOD) polices. As an IT admin, you’re responsible for scanning and tracking your IP resources to ensure that network devices and end users can be allocated unique IP addresses to access your network.

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Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxy Mode

Nov 13, 2020 By Nick Ramirez In HAProxy

HAProxy can run in two different modes: TCP or HTTP. When operating in TCP mode, we say that it acts as a layer 4 proxy. In HTTP mode, we say that it acts as a layer 7 proxy. To understand the difference, you must first learn about the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, which helps IT pros conceptualize and explain where a piece of software fits in the context of a computer network.

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Network Assessment for A Successful IT Migration | Obkio

Nov 13, 2020 By Obkio In Obkio
Deploying or migrating to a new service infrastructure within your business is always an exciting, but highly stressful venture. In order for a new service deployment or migration to be successful, businesses need to plan and prepare beforehand. A network assessment is the surest and easiest way for businesses to prepare their network for a deployment or migration without any hiccups.
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