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Threat Hunting with Network Metadata

Maintaining a safe and secure network is not optional with an ever increasing amount of threats and methods of intrusion. Learn how you can leverage network metadata for fast and effective threat hunting, today. In this webinar, you will see how bringing together NetOps and SecOps information can help your organization continually locate and validate past and present indicators of compromise more efficiently

Keeping Remote Workers Connected With Proactive VPN Monitoring

For companies who can’t—or just don’t—host all of their information and applications in the public cloud, VPNs are a gateway to business-critical resources that employees need to do their jobs when they’re not in the office. Since we’re in the middle of a global pandemic, most of us can’t go into our offices. But bills still need to be paid, customers still need to be contacted, and internal resources like line of business applications need to be accessed.

Designing On-Prem Kubernetes Networks for High Availability

Designing and maintaining networks is hard. When deploying Kubernetes in your on-prem data center, you will need to answer a basic question: Should it be an overlay network on top of an existing network, or should it be part of an existing network? The Networking options table provides guidelines to choose the right type of networking based on various factors.

Is the role of ITSM only limited to IT? Understanding Enterprise Service Management

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.

Fault Monitoring vs. Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference? | Obkio

Fault Monitoring vs. Network Monitoring: What are the differences and when do you need either solution? Where do we start when users or employees complain about poor network performance? And what tools are available to help? Check out our video to learn about the differences between Fault Monitoring and Networking Monitoring and what may be the right solution for your needs, in under 2 minutes. Every IT professional knows that users typically complain about two things: Something doesn’t work. Something is slow slow.

Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part I

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.

Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part II

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.

Impact of COVID 19 on IT Infrastructure & Shift in Priorities

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.

Achieving Higher Profit Margins by Selling Security-as-a-Service

Cyberattacks are on the rise—but your clients’ cybersecurity spending isn’t keeping up. They’re often reluctant to spend money on security measures they believe are unnecessary and that may actually slow down their workflows. So how do you keep them safe from sophisticated attackers while also growing your own business? Auvik Director of Systems Engineering, Steve Petryschuk, and Andy Cocking, Director of Sales at Barracuda MSP are teaming up to talk about how you can sell your clients on security offerings within their managed services budget at low or no cost to your MSP.