IT Operations
October 29, 2019
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 29, 2019
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 28, 2019
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...
IT Operations
October 17, 2019
Many IT folks like the "Do-it-Yourself" approach to solving many tasks. This article written by Chris Colorado provides some very detailed instructions on how to setup Active Directory Auditing of...
IT Operations
April 5, 2019
September 23, 2013 was a deadline for all medical industry contractors and vendors to comply with HIPAA omnibus rule. This applies to all companies that touched sensitive patient information such as...
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...
