The previous blog reviewed some guidelines that laid the foundation for security through understanding your environment and planning how elements within that environment are configured, used, accessed, and tracked. Although…
Protection Methods – The Art of Data Analytics
Application Mapping: Turn-by-Turn for Your Data Center
When you go on a trip somewhere, you always take a map. When I was growing up, that map came in the form of a road atlas that was bigger…
Culture of Data Protection: What Your Customers Expect
We’ve talked about building a culture, why it applies to all data environments, and some specific types of data protection features you should be considering. Today, we’ll be considering the culture of protection the…
Beating Imposter Syndrome
“Hello! My Name is Phoummala and I have re-occurring imposter syndrome. I struggle with this frequently and it’s a battle that I know I am not alone in.” What is…
Related Attributes: Syslog, Interface Error Statistics, and Possibly More
Data, data, data. You want all of the data, right? Of course you do. Collecting telemetry and logging data is easy. We all do it and we all use it…
Policy and Controls – A Foundation for Threat Protection
In the previous blog in this series, we reviewed several types of attacks and threats, and some ways they are perpetrated. In this blog, we will become familiar with several…
Culture of Data Protection: Data Quality, Privacy, and Security
As I explained in previous posts on building a culture of data protection, we in the technology world must embrace data protection by design. To Reward, We Must Measure. How…
What Is Root Cause Analysis?
If you work in engineering or support, you’ve probably spent a lot of time troubleshooting things. You’ve probably spent just as much time trying to figure out why things were…
The Human Side of IT
The technology industry is about technology. Technology is the fastest changing industry there is, but the often-overlooked part of this industry is the humans that work with the technology. Humans…
How Well Do You Know Your IT Environment?
Do you know what’s in your data center? How about your wide area network (WAN)? If you had to draw a map or produce a list of all the things…