aaron.j.denning · Cyber Security Specialist

nothing here goes to the cloud for security reasons everything is kept in house.

for sure re-education but also to never stop learning always keep pushing yourself to learn everything you can in the IT field.

tell that to my network guys they are very stuck in there ways.

agree with you mcam i think the dirt digging will end when it is too easy to get a hold of or maybe we can finally stop seeing a facebook posting every 2 seconds.. i know thats where alot of people get caught.

We use both and alot of times we will do a trial just to see how it was built and re-build one in house to make it ours without all the extra fluff you get from alot of vendors. The cost of things is a huge factor anywhere doesnt matter if your a huge company or a small one the cost of monitoring is always there in your…

* Do you take baselines at all? How many? How often? we are kinda slow at this we dont take them as much as we should. * What counters/metrics do you collect? All the network stats and metrics * Do you baseline your applications during peak usage? Low usage? Month end? our application team would do this not me. * Do you…

we have a ton of tools in our arsenal we are not trying to find a way to combine them all into one.

Have been following all 3 post and have taken something from everyone of them.

I dont know if anyone knows exactly on there network. i know here we have a monitoring team and then a network team and oddly enough we dont really talk..i know what kind of switches have but no where near what configs are on them or have been on them unless i go though the configs on NCM and see whats going on.

yeah got a few buddies that like to call me an Internet Nazi lol

Agree with naburleson alerts are awesome we monitor everything to try to head it all off as soon as possible. the less the managers and execs know the better.

i get these errors too

non taken syldra i meant to put that the answers go off your username but the cookies would be an issue didn't think about them

All of our cloud stuff is in house

All your post have been awesome and very insightful thanks for everything.

Standards are a must for any company no matter the size this way when you do get bigger everything is set. also no one stays in one place forever with standards at least you know it will stay the same.

good info i know here we use sccm for the windows side not too sure about the open source side.

our NCM does a nightly download of all the configs for that OH $*%# moments. we basically use it as our puppet system for our network device's

We have cloud stuff where i am but we also are just starting it up.. but yeah Apps in the cloud is a good option

We built a log aggregation is pretty much like all the others out there just built specifically for our company

great article and i agree with pretty much everyone here that we need to be completely monitored and properly documented.. just in case someone leaves they can pick back up where that person left off at with some training.

we use NCM,NPM, and a ton of perl scripts to do pretty much everything and do a small bit of cisco prime just to do some wireless monitoring but our our network team is using it.

this was a great article we did our VoIP roll out a while back and we just did alot of training on how to use the cisco phones and CUCM for our telephony guys. we use VNQM to monitor and its an amazing tool.

Good blog about DPI cant wait to read more on this now.

vladan Awesome article i do a little work with the VM guys here so this is a great insight on some latency issues we may see.

click on some of them and see if it says you have answered them yet it goes off your log on

Still is not working. I've completed 16 & 17 without even taking the quiz!!!!!

great read

i love these commands as we are a linux/unix shop this gets used all the time.

through our wireless if you dont have a GID you don't get on if your a visitor the manager of the section you are seeing needs to get you a temp GID just to get on. if you need to work from home we use RSA tokens and pulse, if you want your emails and what not on your smartphone it has to go to the security get patched…