In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we went over SIEM and its role in performing a thorough audit of your network. Now that we’ve got the basics...
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8 Log Management Habits of Highly Effective IT Security Managers
In today’s business environment, data is the source that drives organizations in the proper direction. Data enables planning, forecasting, and strategy. For example, retailers rely...
OpManager Adds SIEM Plug-in: Integrate Your Data Center Security and Performance Management
Security threats are on the rise.Needless to say, the impact of security breaches has serious business consequences. Besides the cost of data loss, data breaches...
Worrying Doesn’t Keep IT Problems Away. Good Tools Do!
Free tools to quickly troubleshoot your way and stay on top of IT Love them or hate them, but you cannot ignore them. Surprises, pleasant...
The Heartbleed Bug: How to Mitigate Risks with Better Password Management
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Are you aware of the Seven Deadly Sins of IT Incident Management?
IT environments today are boiling cauldrons of complexity triggering incidents that can have major impact on business and user satisfaction, not to mention legal and...
Policy-Driven Network Configuration Management Critical to Network Security
(Originally published in Information Week) Manual processes to managing device configurations often create gaping security holes! Today’s enterprises face unprecedented cyber-security threats. New breed of...
Sports madness and IT management
Photo credit: Hindu Business Line Across the world people love various sports, be it basketball, football, tennis or cricket. There are humongous number of diehard...
5 Reasons You Should Consider Application-Aware Network Performance Management
In today’s complex business environment, the first question thoughtful IT leaders ask when considering any new IT investment or change is, ‘How will it impact the business?’ That the business depends on well-managed IT is well understood. What is less well understood is how an IT organization can manage an infrastructure that is growing ever more complex. It’s not just the network infrastructure that IT teams need to consider; it’s not even the increasingly complex application infrastructure that stands between the physical network infrastructure and the users. The challenge today involves the effective management of both these infrastructures as well the interplay between them — and it’s the interplay between them that poses the greatest challenge. Application-aware network performance management (AA-NPM) tools can help you overcome that challenge. What is AA-NPM? These days, before an application appears in front of an end user, it may pass through numerous infrastructure components, as shown in the diagram below: Traditional or stand-alone application performance management (APM) tools provide visibility only into the middle component group, the application infrastructure. They typically support auto-discovery of all the applications in the networks, transaction analysis, application usage analysis, end-user experience analysis, and more. They also provide the basic functions to monitor the health and performance of all configured application infrastructure assets. But APM tools do not provide insight into the network infrastructure itself. Typically, network infrastructure managers rely on separate network performance management (NPM) tools for fault management, device monitoring, capacity planning, interface traffic analysis, configuration management and those sorts of tasks. The problem with a management approach that relies on two separate tools is that neither of these tools is designed to facilitate the management of the interplay between these environments...