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The year 2020 has seen various changes throughout the world but no change has seen more of an impact than the Corona-virus. During this epidemic, workers from all industries have moved from a traditional office-based role to WFH (Working From Home). It’s known as a business transforms it brings new risks associated with it. New and emerging technologies and the practices they involve require operational, policy and security measures to be implemented and evolved over time.

Although network monitoring is an unenviable task, it must be done to sustain your network’s health. But what if you had a real-time report containing only key metrics, revealing how your network is doing without overloading you with information? This would (1) assure you that there are no aberrations in your network and (2) give you peace of mind.

The new release of FortiOS 6.4 from 31 March 2020 brings a new and interesting feature of using webhooks for external API calls and enable automation stitches, which are easy to configure in FortiGate UI and allow you to run multiple actions. This led us to revise our integration script to utilize this functionality and allow administrators to easily configure different levels of mitigation with the webhooks.

In the early days of telephony, there were few people who had phone numbers in every town and city. There were just a few numbers to remember and if your brain failed, you could check with a telephone operator, women who always knew (and know) how to listen. Let’s see how a network operating system was born in the middle of the 20th century, right at the center of telephone networks.

Troubleshoot your IP addresses and switch ports faster and smarter! Managing and troubleshooting your network IPs and ports effectively can become difficult if hands-on network monitoring by your IT team is required at all times. Ever wondered if you can monitor your IPs and endpoints on the go? If yes, the solution you need is the OpUtils mobile app.

The integration of Flowmon with an external user database such as Active Directory (AD) significantly simplifies access rights management both for small companies and enterprises. Although it has been available for some time, there are some helpful functions that may not be immediately obvious.

Your network operations center (NOC) team plays an important role in your enterprise — and you want to do everything possible to help this team succeed. With these 10 best NOC dashboard examples, you can do just that. Bonus Material: NOC Automated Workflow Example PDF There’s no shortage of NOC dashboard examples, but deciding which ones work best for your enterprise NOC team can be challenging.