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Zero-Trust Networks: When They Make Sense and When They Don't

Sep 26, 2018 By Auvik In Auvik
As business applications shift from living on-premises to the cloud, it may not always be necessary to enable communication between user devices. In fact, preventing your clients’ user devices from contacting each other—part of a zero-trust network approach—could prevent a malicious cyber attack from spreading and costing clients major data recovery fees.
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Visibility for Security You Can't Protect What You Can't See

Sep 26, 2018 By Auvik In Auvik
As an MSP, your first line of defense for clients is visibility. You need to know exactly which devices you’re protecting and how those devices are configured. You also need to know what your client’s users are doing out there in the cyber wilds. Without these insights, you’re flying blind in a crazy fast-paced world of threats and risks. In this one-hour webinar from ID Agent and Auvik Networks, we’ll demonstrate how what you don’t.
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Own the Network Network Management for MSPs EMEA

Sep 26, 2018 By Auvik In Auvik
Most MSPs will agree that the majority of networking offerings out there are not built for the channel. This leads to poor support, cobbled together solutions, and poor management capabilities. In today’s cloud-dominated world, the network is more important to your clients than ever—it’s the gateway to everything they need.
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Simplifying security auditing, part 5: Detecting network attacks

Sep 25, 2018 By IT Security In ManageEngine

Anyone trying to access resources in your network needs to interact with your network devices: firewalls, routers, switches, and IDS/IPSs. Each of these devices generate syslogs that contain important security information and must be audited to gain complete visibility into the activities occurring in your network. Most SIEM solutions, including our own Log360, can collect and analyze syslogs in real time and instantly alert security teams if any security event of interest occurs.

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LPWAN as a communication base for IoT

Sep 20, 2018 By Alexander La Rosa In Pandora FMS

LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network), also known as LPWA or LPN, is a wireless data transport protocol that is now understood as one of the basic protocols for the implementation of IoT. In order to have a better idea of the relevance of LPWAN we can consider the prediction made by statisca.com of a steady increase in the number of LPWAN devices connected around the world, expecting this number to reach around 3.5 billion devices by 2021.

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Auvik Use Case #2: Automatically Acquiring Network Inventory

Sep 11, 2018 By Sarah Cunningham-Scharf In Auvik
To effectively support and manage a client’s network, you need to know what’s really on the network. Sure, a tour of the IT environment will help. You’ll be able to slowly document information about the devices you can see, like the make, model, and serial number. But what about the devices you can’t see—or that the client doesn’t know about?
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MSPs Face Highly Fragmented Network Hardware Market

Aug 28, 2018 By Auvik In Auvik
WATERLOO, ON / August 28, 2018 — The network hardware market is highly fragmented, with hundreds of equipment vendors vying for market share, says a new report from Auvik Networks. There’s intense competition in the network switch, router, firewall, and access point hardware markets, with upwards of 40 vendors competing in each category.
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Managing Network Vendor Diversity: The MSP Challenge

Aug 28, 2018 By Alex Hoff In Auvik
Whether you inherit an IT environment or build it from scratch, managing your clients’ network infrastructure can be a real headache. Keeping clients’ network devices functioning so they stay connected and productive requires complex manual tasks, expensive expertise, and tons of valuable time—that is, if you don’t use software to simplify and automate network management activities.
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