It only costs a criminal about $5 to launch a 300-second DDoS attack against you — but the crippling effects can last much longer. That’s why rethinking your approach to network security and network monitoring is the key outsmarting the criminals and protecting your enterprise — no matter the threat....
Published: Nov 20, 2018
AD security is crucial to controlling risk and ensuring compliance Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of identity and access management (IAM) at most organizations and, as such, is probably the most crucial technology on the network.
User accounts in particular are important for security but are difficult to...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
The challenges with managing accounts in Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD are many and varied.
With the frantic pace of today’s business world, organizations struggle to keep up with requests to create, change and remove access to their on-premises AD. This scenario becomes even more complicated when you mix...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Throughout this book, a number of conventions have been used to help highlight important points, provide supporting evidence, or advise you of our obvious bias. Look for the following conventions:
Real-world example
Facts and figures
Techie alert
Useful tip
Blatant sales pitch
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Published: Apr 30, 2020
Cisco® Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) is a smart Wi-Fi solution that uses the Cisco wireless infrastructure to detect and locate smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. With it, your organization can directly serve personalized content to users.
Published: Aug 22, 2014
This paper explores the capabilites of unified communications and provides examples of how exploration and production companies use convergence in communications to best advantage to allow data, voice, and video collaboration between experts and explore the value that it brings. It includes various case examples of where...
Published: Apr 24, 2013
Becoming a master of networking has never been easier
Whether you're in charge of a small network or a large network, Networking All-in-One is full of the information you’ll need to set up a network and keep it functioning. Fully updated to capture the latest Windows 10 releases through Spring...
Published: Aug 21, 2019
Network and application problems cost companies a tremendous amount of time, money, and if they go unresolved, customer loyalty, brand reputation and public perception can suffer. Internally, slow applications and poor service quality can frustrate employees and cause their productivity to suffer, which directly impacts...
Published: Jan 20, 2016
5G means something different to every enterprise.
We’re going to walk through each of these categories in a separate post, starting today with IoT.
IoT, the Internet of Things, has been a long time coming, but with 5G we’re going to see all the puzzle pieces fall into place. That’s because...
Published: Oct 14, 2019
A practical guide to assessing and improving the maturity of your security operations through Threat Lifecycle Management.
This white paper explores how to assess and evolve the principle programmes of the security operations centre (SOC): threat monitoring, threat hunting, threat investigation and incident response....
Published: Apr 16, 2019
To stay ahead today's network performance management solutions need a lens into the end user's experience as well as an understanding of the dependencies between your applications and network. With this approach, you are alerted to issues before the business is impacted and problems are resolved faster!
This...
Published: Jul 26, 2016
At this point, everyone should be aware that security management is essential for everyone. Whether you are operating a home system, overseeing a small startup, or performing security governance for an enterprise, everyone can benefit from paying attention to security
Note: Most of the tools I recommend are Windows...
Published: Apr 08, 2014
Fully updated to cover the 2019 exam release!
CompTIA's A+ certification is an essential certification to building a successful IT career. Test takers must pass both 90-question exams to be certified, and this book—plus online test bank—will help you reach your certification goal.
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Published: Oct 17, 2019
Security teams have a difficult task to perform, and it’s not getting any easier. IT environments are becoming more complex, threats are becoming more sophisticated, and the number of known vulnerabilities is dramatically increasing. In addition, there is a critical shortage of skilled IT security specialists, and...
Published: May 29, 2019