Blog
What Can You Monitor on Your Campus Network?
Thu, 03/14/2019
The better question is, what can't you monitor on campus? Intermapper provides network monitoring for your school for anything with an IP address. Check out the infographic to see examples of the possibilities. PRINT THE INFOGRAPHIC
Blog
Cryptoviral Extortion: The Enduring Problem of Ransomware
By Bob Erdman on Wed, 03/13/2019
Learn about the long arms of ransomware, and how to protect your organization from its grasp.
Datasheet
Performance Navigator
Historical performance monitoring and modeling across your IT environment In an increasingly virtualized world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand performance across your IT enterprise. Performance Navigator performance analysis software allows you to see what’s truly occurring on your mission critical systems. With current day and historical performance data, you know exactly...
Article
Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
Blog
Insider Threat Awareness: Preventing Attacks from Disgruntled Ex-Employees
By Bob Erdman on Wed, 02/06/2019
Learn about a recent example of the damage insider attacks can cause, and how your organization can prevent them.
Datasheet
Intermapper Getting Started Training Overview
The Intermapper Getting Started training program helps customers quickly apply their knowledge to easily map and monitor their environment. Intermapper from Fortra is an enterprise mapping, monitoring, and alerting tool that helps network administrators maintain healthy networks. Customers can now take advantage of our Intermapper Getting Started training program to help enable planning of...
Blog
Enterprise Security: Best Practices and Tips
By Bob Erdman on Mon, 12/03/2018
How much security is really necessary to protect yourself? Read on for tips on how to best protect your organization and avoid becoming a headline.
On-Demand Webinar
Get to Know Intermapper in 15 Minutes
What is Intermapper, and why should I choose it? Watch this brief 15-minute overview and find out what makes Intermapper special and how easy it is to get started.
Blog
Bridging the Gap Between Cloud and On-Premises Devices When Monitoring Hybrid IT
Wed, 11/14/2018
Learn how network monitoring can help you bridge the gap between on-premises and cloud devices when monitoring hybrid IT environments.
Article
If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.
Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
Blog
The Shared Responsibility of Cloud Security
By Bob Erdman on Fri, 10/26/2018
The agreement that cloud security is a shared responsibility between cloud providers and cloud users has now firmly taken hold. How those responsibilities shake out, however, is an ongoing conversation.
Blog
How SIEM Protects Cloud Servers
Tue, 10/16/2018
Security information and event management (SIEM) applications help IT professionals oversee their vast technology infrastructures, including cloud repositories. SIEM applications aggregate data from many different types of systems to present a clear view of the actionable security tasks your team must address to protect your business.
On-Demand Webinar
Top Reasons to Move from Syslog to a SIEM
By Bob Erdman
Join cybersecurity expert Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager at Fortra as he discusses how a SIEM can make a world of difference when it comes to efficiently managing security events.
Blog
Network Monitoring for Government Agencies: Areas of Focus
Thu, 08/30/2018
Network monitoring is crucial to ensuring a healthy network with maximum uptime for your users. But as a government agency, it’s even more critical.
Product Video
Intermapper Feature Tour
Don't have time to join our live webinar? Get the Intermapper Feature Tour on-demand! Intermapper network monitoring software is both powerful and easy to use. Get visibility into real-time network performance with our flexible network mapping and monitoring solution for all your physical and virtual equipment. Let Kevin Jackson, our Technical Solutions Consultant, give you a guided tour. Watch...
Guide
Choosing the Right SIEM Solution to Face Today's Security Challenges
What Makes a SIEM Solution Effective? SIEM solutions have become an essential part of many organization's security toolkits. SIEM technology gives organizations helpful insights into potential security threats across critical business networks, streamlines compliance reporting, improves efficiencies, and provides peace of mind. Given the immense benefits and an increase in the number of SIEM...
Blog
SAO vs. SIEM: Not Enemies, But a Security Defending Duo
Thu, 08/16/2018
As both SAOs and SIEMs grow in popularity, it's clear that these two pieces of software should not be viewed as competitors, but rather as collaborative partners in the battle against security breaches.
Article
How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.