Guide
Essentials for Privileged Access Management
Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
Guide
Our Privileged Access Management Solution - Your Sudo Replacement
Learn how to reduce the risk of insider fraud, streamline regulatory compliance, and greatly reduce administration efforts with an effective privileged access management solution.
Guide
Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance
SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control?
SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Article
New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE
At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there was this unfortunate...
Article
Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies
Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.
Article
Pros and Cons for Puppet's Configuration Management & Security
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston at the end of June. We had a lot of activity at our exhibitor stand, and a lot of discussions being passed on to me by our sales team
I continued to have the same conversation again and again over the three days. This seems to be the year people have finished bedding down Puppet...
Article
Managing IT Access Privileges
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM
Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges.
The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master keys” (or smart ID...
Article
Solving Healthcare Security Concerns
Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also...
Blog
How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
By Per Bauer on Tue, 02/28/2017
Looking for a capacity planning tool? Find out how to choose a tool that will be the most accurate.
On-Demand Webinar
Getting Started with Intermapper Flows Bandwidth Monitoring
By Pat Cameron
This webinar provides an overview of Intermapper Flows, the integrated network bandwidth monitoring tool within Intermapper that provides you with real-time information on the full activity of your network.
Guide
Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)
Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
Blog
Use Flows to Keep Network Traffic Moving
By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 12/14/2016
Intermapper Flows is a particularly valuable tool for monitoring network traffic as it gives you detailed metrics about who, how, and when data is flowing across the network.
On-Demand Webinar
Go with the Flow: Intro to Intermapper Flows NetFlow Monitoring
Get a complete overview of the benefits and features of Intermapper Flows, a NetFlow analyzer that works helps you identify bandwidth hogs and traffic congestion.
Article
Detect Devices Your Way in Intermapper 6.1
By Kevin Jackson on Thu, 11/24/2016
Intermapper 6.1 makes detecting new devices easier, more accurate, and faster than ever. Get a full review of Intermapper 6.1’s features and how to try them out.
Guide
10 Steps to Streamline the Deployment of Network Monitoring Software for SMBs
10 tips to help small to medium-sized businesses save time during the installation and configuration of network monitoring software.