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Remember the Amazon Cloud outage last April that affected many prominent sites? How about the Intuit outage last March? Configuration errors are one of the leading causes of network downtimes. Learn how to protect your network from human error, disasters, and just plain bad luck in this informative webcast. We will…
Firewalls are an important first line of defense against a range of security threats. But outside of brute force hacks, countless a firewall has fallen to more sophisticated modes of attack, if not circumvented altogether. The consequence of which means hackers gain access to the network and trouble ensues. Part Two of the…
The Heartbleed bug is a vulnerability that’s compromising Internet applications like Web, email, and instant message communication. However, recent revelations indicate that there’s more to this threat. Unravelling the intensity of its potential, Heartbleed has recently been found to also affect connected devices that rely…
A recent survey commissioned by Avaya reveals that network vulnerabilities are causing more business impacts than most realize, resulting in revenue and job loss. * 80% percent of companies lose revenue when the network goes down; on average, companies lost $140,000 USD as a result of network outages * 1 in 5 companies…
As networks grow, manual network configuration and change management (NCCM) becomes extremely cumbersome and can cause costly network downtime. Network administrators using manual processes can experience: * Increased time and effort to manage the growing number of devices * Human errors causing network outage and loss of…
The real impact of maintaining a good Device Lifecycle Management Process is - Save Time and Mitigate Vulnerability Risks! While network administrators are busy setting up networks, troubleshooting and resolving issues, optimizing network performance, how can they squeeze-in time to manage these tasks? Every step in the…
In a previous post, we discussed the top 5 reasons why IT admins should automate the network configuration and change management (NCCM) process. So, now that the need is clearly understood, let’s look at the various options available for NCCM automation, along with their pros and cons to help you choose the right fit for…
It’s astonishing to hear that some network configs aren’t regularly backed up. One assumes that the reason engineers don’t do this is for one of the following reasons: * They think a configuration error is unlikely to cause any network issues * They have other things on their minds * They think that Network Change and…
In a business world dominated by stringent network compliance, auditing policies and regulations, network engineers have additional pressure to ensure federal and internal corporate policies are met. With enterprise networks growing hand-in-hand with business expansion, it’s not easy to ensure all configuration and device…
Read more Mordac cartoons at: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-12-13/ #1 Device Hardware – Fix it and Forget it * * Don’t record or track device End-of-Life details – You don’t want to miss the surprises! * Let those under-performing, non-compliant devices continue to operate in the network. * No informed decisions or…
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