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Even though fielding emergency calls on holidays is something system administrators have come to expect, resetting passwords while the family sits down to dinner can still put a damper on the holiday spirit. The workaholics in your office won't let a little something like Thanksgiving slow them down and as long as they are…
Be in the Know! Join the upcoming webcast on vital important of log & event management. Check out this post for more info:http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/blog/2012/05/02/upcoming-geek-speak-webcast-back-to-the-basics-of-log-event-management
IPv6 Subnet Masking IPv6 subnet masking is similar to IPv4 with two key differences in the way IPv6 appear and what actually gets masked. IPv6 uses 128 binary for each IP Address, as opposed to IPv4, which uses 32 binary digits. The 128 binary digits are divided into 16-bit words. Since using IPv4's octet notation to…
It wasn't that long ago that SSL 2.0 and then SSL 3.0 imperfections sent the security world scrambling to the safety of TLS, SSL's direct successor. Then came BEAST, which used a combination of JavaScript and network sniffers to decrypt authentication cookies over TLS 1.0 streams. And now we have the Lucky 13 attack that…
It's Valentine's Day! Your excitement is palpable. How about something you can really get excited about: lovable bundles of network management joy from your totally friend-zone pals at SolarWinds? SolarWinds IT Bundles - Happy Together! They say "it takes two, baby, to make a dream come true," so, in that spirit, let's…
I'm working on a webinar geared specifically at the challenges of managing networks within the government sector and/or within the DoD. I could use some help. If you've got any good ideas drop me a line and I'll swipe a shirt for you from the marketing department :) Josh
In conjunction with SANS, SolarWinds recently conducted a security survey amongst 647 respondents who are security and network administration professionals from various public and private organizations including federal government agencies, banking, financial, and healthcare institutions across the US and Canada. The…
What happens when a user locks out his user account? He calls you, right? Well, something else happens, too: your domain controller logs the event. The neat thing about that is it's not just good for compliance reporting. Logged events like this are also useful for log management systems that monitor your logs and notify…
I'm in our Cork Ireland office for a few days and I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to get back over here. The people are super friendly, the weather is fantastic, and you can smell the ocean everywhere you go. We've got an awesome office here in our European headquarters, strong players all around and it's always a…
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