Why Am I Excited for “How to ‘People’ Better?” I think many IT people have felt under-appreciated at one time or another, but some of that might be because we’re not doing the best job possible at selling ourselves and selling IT. This is a follow-up to the great TechPod podcast with Keith Townsend and I’m always happy to…
Why Am I Excited for “Reducing Vulnerability and Improving Compliance: Lessons Learned From Federal Customers?” Any government network can be a difficult environment to monitor. Software restrictions, cipher requirements, and organizational dictates aside, they’re also some of the most interesting environments to monitor.…
Today’s Windows environments need to be available and highly performant to ensure employees and customers are at their most productive. Increasing numbers of remote users put incremental strain on organizational network and server infrastructure, wherever and however hosted. Learn how to remedy these issues at our upcoming…
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On Saturday, December 12, our CEO was advised by an executive at FireEye of a security vulnerability in our Orion Software Platform which was the result of a very sophisticated cyberattack on SolarWinds. We soon discovered that we had been the victim of a malicious cyberattack that impacted our Orion Platform products as…
FEATURED EPISODE: Sending and Requesting Large Files with SolarWinds Serv-U Managed File Transfer ServerOctober 6, 2020 FTP has been the de facto large file transfer protocol since its inception in the 1980's, but it's insecure by design. Extensions to the protocol have added security, but these require a client and…
FEATURED EPISODE: How To Do Bulk Firmware Updates With NCMOctober 13, 2020 As a network engineer, you're responsible for the uptime and stability of network infrastructure. One of the keys to keeping a happy and healthy network is making sure the devices are running firmware free of bugs and known issues. It may be…
I can’t be the only one who groaned audibly when I saw an email come in from someone on the security team, right? As someone in operations, I had my day job and the security team was just there slowing me down or halting my progress completely. But ultimately, I learned if the security team had been involved sooner, there…
Things that go bump in the night. Things that rustle in the leaves. Sharp teeth and yellow eyes and the smell of danger. All of those things are scary. But is anything as scary as Database Terror?! There are so many things that can go wrong with an unmonitored database. So many mistakes can be made. So many hours of lost…
Why Am I Excited for “Upgrades Made Easy?” I’m truly proud of the work the product and development teams have done to improve the upgrade process for the SolarWinds Orion Platform software. As an IT professional, I’ve dealt with painful upgrades and when I encounter one, I generally never upgrade that software again.…
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