Enterprises are facing new challenges not just in terms of staying relevant in the market and customers but also in controlling internal organizational chaos. Over the years, there have been a number of frameworks and models that were consistently being rolled out to assist enterprises to declutter operational and organizational challenges, streamline enterprise services and service delivery, and identify loopholes and fix them.

With current global crisis spreading into multiple areas of information technologies, it is crucial to learn how are the security-related areas affected, and what it would mean for the entire IT industry. Remote access to network resources results in both increased load on new and existing tools allowing performing most activity remotely (to grasp the possible scale of impact: read, for example, about recent Zoom service controversies).

Managing a network more effectively has been something our customers have been asking us about for many years, but it has become an increasingly important topic as working from home becomes the new normal across the globe. In this blog series, I thought I’d present a few analytical techniques that we have seen our customers deploy on their network data to: Better understand their network and Develop baselines for network behaviour and detect anomalies.

A difficult question we come across with many customers is ‘what does normal look like for my network?’. There are many reasons why monitoring for changes in network behaviour is important, with some great examples in this article - such as flagging potential security risks or predicting potential outages.

So many aspects of our business & lives are under pressure right now due to the global pandemic. In the middle of all this, IT infrastructure still remains the backbone of the smooth business operations. Motadata is committed to helping individuals like you & your organization to get through these tough times. We are in this together. We can do this together. People in IT are always busy. Now your firefighters are working from home, you would not want to bother them for redundant tasks.

There are some really crucial metrics that are valuable in terms of the insights they offer. Such metrics include user logins, application throughput, network usage and more. Ironically however, some of these metrics are also the ones that are the most variable, having definite valleys and peaks depending on specific times of a week and because of this, it becomes invariably difficult to set up thresholds for analysis and investigation.