IT Operations
October 19, 2020
You just got the call: your Exchange server is not sending or receiving email. Your one and only Exchange server. OK, this is bad. You drop everything and begin to check the Exchange server for...
Security & Compliance
October 19, 2020
We continue the series of articles by Nick Cavalancia on our blog. The previous post was dedicated to Event Logging, today we are going to talk about general approach to IT Audit.
An IT Audit is,...
IT Operations
October 19, 2020
The average IT Pro doesn't need to be told stories about big data - you've been inundated with log data from dozens of sources for at least a decade before the term "big data" even came to exist. The...
IT Operations
July 6, 2020
When stories come up in the news about data breaches, if you're like me, you tend to gloss over them if they seem similar to something you've already read. I almost did that today. But something...
Security & Compliance
October 17, 2019
The NSA released a PDF entitled "Spotting the Adversary with Windows Event Log Monitoring" earlier this year. While there's a bit of irony in this, given the whole Snowden story that followed the...
IT Operations
April 7, 2017
When it comes to change management, Scott Matteson gets it. Too many companies today make changes without any kind of change management in place. Scott's approach even includes the mandated use of...
IT Operations
April 5, 2019
When it comes to security, event logs are supposed to be the best friends of an IT guy managing the environment, right? Roger Grimes from InfoWorld claims that the evidence of malicious activity can...
Security & Compliance
February 27, 2020
In one of the most recent articles posted on darkreading.com, Robert Lemans speaks about the new features of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems and some common problems the...
Security & Compliance
September 1, 2020
So, the U.S. government shutdown on October 1st with much focus on “essential” and “non-essential” employees. In the case of an organizational shutdown (read: pretty much every weekend,...