Email is the backbone of business communication for most organizations, and being an indispensable communication medium, it is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Today, email security challenges have become increasingly sophisticated and threatening to businesses. The drastically rising number of phishing and ransomware attacks pose challenges that can severely dent an organization’s brand image and reputation….

Your network has many moving parts, and it’s important to track them to ensure your network’s health, maintenance, and success. But it can be challenging to manage all your network’s devices and data flows, not to mention keeping your network updated and working through performance issues. It’s important to have some form of network visualization…

Using the Windows event log collector service (or an alternative third-party log collection solution) is a crucial aspect of system and network management. This guide will help you understand what the Windows Event Collector is, how the Windows event log collector service works, and how to collect Windows event logs with the Windows Event Collector….

In today’s digital era, IT services form the backbone of businesses and play an indispensable part in keeping them resilient. With the majority of the workforce now operating remotely, IT departments need to ensure every service request or incident reported by end users from any location, at any time, is seamlessly captured, monitored, and resolved…

For network IT admins, network diagrams can be invaluable, as they offer a quick visual overview of the IT environment. But what type of map is more useful, a logical network diagram or a physical network diagram? It’s useful to understand the merits of both, though for most admins, logical network diagrams are the more…

Why is my virtual machine (VM) so slow? IT experts are regularly asked about virtual machine slow performance issues. If you’re wondering how to make virtual machines faster, then this guide is for you. The question of how to speed up virtual machines doesn’t have a simple answer. An underperforming virtual machine, one that’s slow…

In a time when the world seems to revolve around data, it’s no surprise organizations, no matter their size, need some support managing all of their stored information. With new data constantly being created and added to your databases, trying to navigate data storage, applications, and more without a tool is, at best, overwhelming and,…

Today, most organizations have complex IT infrastructure with a wide range of endpoints, including servers, applications, and the cloud. As it’s difficult for businesses to analyze a huge amount of log data, organizations prefer using log analysis tools to centralize, analyze, and monitor logs. These tools reveal useful information about web app performance, security concerns,…

According to a Web Server Survey 2020 conducted by Netcraft, more than 400 million websites across the world trust NGINX to deliver their content quickly, reliably, and safely. To ensure the smooth functioning of the server and its applications, NGINX writes events in different log formats, including the error log and the access log. Handling…

The modern world is advancing in every respect, and technology is advancing even faster. And now that companies handle most of our confidential data, how can we be sure what we share is safe? To earn our confidence, companies must implement powerful security systems. Many use SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) tools to protect…

Definition of Data Loss Prevention Data loss prevention (DLP) refers to the process of safeguarding data to protect it against thefts and leaks. This is typically done through software identifying and monitoring sensitive data to ensure only authorized users are accessing it. DLP tools also help ensure those authorized users aren’t putting the data at…

One of most important questions for any modern database administrator is, “How do different databases scale?” There are different approaches to database scaling, and not all of them are applicable in all contexts. An increasingly popular approach to database scaling is sharding, but what is database sharding, and how does it help databases scale? What…

As businesses grow, they usually need to expand their IT networks to access and provide greater functionality. However, businesses may overlook proper management practices, performance optimization activities, and security requirements. A network assessment can help your business gain visibility into any IT issues, so they can be rectified before they have a wider impact on…

If we’ve learned nothing else about cybercriminal organizations over the last few years, we know for certain these folks are experts on Microsoft security. They’re no longer simply opportunistically gaining access to your network; instead, they’re leveraging known vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications and using the very network they’ve compromised to assist them in finding their intended target…

Help desk software helps companies resolve tech issues faster, eliminating menial tasks and allowing IT departments to resolve complaints more efficiently. Through the organization of information, streamlined workflows, and the elimination of time-consuming manual processes, support specialists can focus on what they do best: addressing requests that demand their particular expertise. Too often, help desk…

The multi-cloud approach to modern IT means workloads—whether virtual machines, containers, or minimal applications—can be located on any one of multiple independent infrastructures; whether running simultaneously for fault-tolerance or when being moved between these. In a modern IT deployment, workloads can (and will) regularly move between cloud and onsite deployments, whether for price, maintenance, latency, or…

The core of your organization’s security stance is built on a massive number of individual permissions to both on-premises and cloud-based resources. With the increase in cyberattacks, concerns around insider threats, and the growing need to meet multiple compliance mandates centered around data security of various types of data, it seems like permissions should be…

Virtualization management requires mastering a specific set of skills. But once mastered, these essential skills can lead to a long and meaningful career in IT. IT pros need a foundation in technologies. To extend utility to their organizations, they should further develop three essential skills – monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting. Think back to your first responsibilities as an…

Whether at work or in the home, we can all benefit from being able to access our Linux devices remotely. Maybe you’re helping a family member or colleague with an IT issue, or perhaps you’re working from home. Remote access capabilities are often especially important for individuals working abroad, at multiple sites, or who spend…

Sometimes, whether for work purposes or personal purposes, you’ll need to access your Mac without being physically present in front of it. This might be because you’re working from a different location than usual, like home or an alternative office space, because you’re working abroad, or perhaps you’re on the go. For many years, the…

This guide will help improve your understanding of network topology diagrams and provide definitions for network infrastructure diagrams (also known as network architecture diagrams) and network segmentation diagrams. I’ll then outline the pros and cons of attempting to manually create a network topology diagram.   I’ll also provide a summary of the benefits of SolarWinds® Network…