Continuous DNS Monitoring: A Real-Time Building Block for SOC Analysts

Posted by MantisNet on Apr 10, 2018 1:00:06 PM
With billions of websites on the Internet, separating the good from the bad is nearly impossible for your IT team.  However, by combining specific tools with streaming analytics, you can better secure and harden your network into a real-time, dynamic cyber security system that identifies potential attacks and blocks them during initial DNS exchanges - effectively stopping security breaches before they have the potential to reach your users.
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Tags: Real-Time Monitoring, DNS Monitoring

Identify and Defend Against Credential Stuffing and ATO Attacks

Posted by MantisNet on Mar 26, 2018 8:07:42 PM
Cyber-crime is no longer a single attacker hacking away at your defenses. With automated credential stealing and account takeover tools, an attacker can send armies of bots to steal valuable information from thousands of victims and make hundreds of thousands of financial transactions.
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Tags: cyber security, Account Takeover, ATO Attacks

What Is 100G Load Balancing? A Crash Course

Posted by MantisNet on Feb 14, 2018 11:58:30 AM
As organizations continue to transition to high-speed network infrastructure, engineers responsible for network monitoring find themselves in need of an answer to the question, "How does one go about monitoring 100G network links?" The unique characteristics of high-speed networks make this a serious technical challenge. 
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100G Network Monitoring: The High-Speed Dilemma

Posted by MantisNet on Dec 14, 2017 9:36:34 AM
2017 proved to be an explosive year for 100G, as well as for other "high-speed" networking technologies ("high-speed" being anything 25G+). According to Crehan Research, the data center Ethernet switching market saw its strongest growth in five years during 2017.
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Tags: network engineering

Network Monitoring Step 2: The Next-Generation of Packet Brokers

Posted by MantisNet on Nov 9, 2017 9:40:10 AM
A new class of highly intelligent Virtual Switches and Next-Generation Packet Brokers (NPB) is on the rise.

Cloud computing and software-defined networking (SDN) have made development and operations teams far more aware of the importance of their networking infrastructure than ever before. In the age of DevOps, private, hybrid, and public cloud computing - the network is the fabric that holds the compute infrastructure together.

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Tags: network engineering, network preformance, cyber security

Network Monitoring Step 1: SPAN Ports vs. TAPs

Posted by MantisNet on Oct 4, 2017 7:17:07 PM
While deploying network monitoring tools, IT managers are often faced with questions, such as: "Can we do this and still ensure that we aren't impacting the production network?" or "Can I make sure that I can see 100% of network traffic?" or "What is the best way to get data into my monitoring and test tools?" 
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Tags: network engineering, test/lab automation, network preformance, cyber security, IT operations