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How you can harden your N-central server

My colleague Lewis Pope, our head security herd, wrote an excellent blog last week about hardening N-able™ RMM. I thought it prudent, in light of recent developments, to do the same for the N-able N-central® product. A lot of it is common knowledge, but I wanted to put together a checklist so you can review the security of your N-central platform and ensure you’re meeting some of these best practices.

Partner Speak: Why Atos chose eG Innovations to proactively monitor its customers' virtual workspaces

Atos needed deep insights into the entire chain of components necessary for a virtual workplace to do its job properly, with a particular emphasis on user experience. This is exactly the kind of requirement that eG Enterprise is built for, which is what prompted Atos to start using the product five years ago. Sietze Vrind, a business manager at Atos says they’ve “never regretted it for a moment.”

What's New In DX NetOps Spectrum Network Monitoring Software

DX NetOps 21.2 network monitoring software continues to innovate and improve the scale, speed, and simplicity of network operations with a focused set of high-value features and capabilities. Exciting new enhancements include increased monitoring scale, telemetry support, expanded SDN and cloud technology coverage, and usability and security updates.

Monitoring IT Just Got Easier: Introducing the New Splunk App for Content Packs

We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Splunk App for Content Packs, an app that acts as a one-stop shop for prepackaged content and out-of-the-box searches and dashboards for common IT infrastructure monitoring sources, making it easy to get up and running with Splunk for IT use cases. In the past, you may have had to install and manage individual apps like Splunk App for VMWare and Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure.

Dealing with Rogue DHCP Servers

You’ve probably happened across this little conundrum at least once or twice—troubleshooting a network issue where users are connecting to the network, but they aren’t able to access any resources or the internet. You start going through your troubleshooting workflow: check physical layer, data link layer, network layer… and there’s the problem. The device has an IP address, but it’s not an IP address you’d expect to see on your network.

The 7 Steps to Creating and Refining a Cloud Migration Strategy

For a successful cloud migration, creating (and later refining), a cloud migration strategy tailored to your organization’s goals, available resources, workloads, and priorities is an absolute necessity. So here, we’ll take a look at a simple list of the areas you’ll need to quantify and understand to build that strategy and then improve it as you move forward through the cloud migration process.

Ubuntu becomes #1 OS for OpenStack deployment

One of the core values of Canonical, that we all identify with, is the mission of bringing the power of open source to everyone on the planet. From developing to developed countries. From individuals to big enterprises. From engineers to CEOs. And there is only one way to find out if we are efficient in what we do. This is community feedback. It is no different this time.

Accelerating Dev Workflows: Terminal-driven Debugging

The pursuit of Digital Transformation and DevOps practices has led to several benefits such as increased deployment rates and better collaboration across teams. However, it has also led to endless abstraction, an increase in responsibilities, and many new tools (Kubernetes, hybrid-clouds and all their services, etc.). This increase in complexity has turned observability into an essential component of all ecosystems.

How ServiceNow and Microsoft Teams improve the employee experience

Today, employees are consumers of the workplace. Just as companies compete for customers, they compete for candidates and to retain their existing workforce. Employees want a sense of belonging and to feel engaged in their everyday work. When employee happiness and engagement is lacking, it impacts the satisfaction and quality of work—and could mean missed business growth. [Transform employee experience.] According to Gallup, highly engaged business units can result in.