In the final blog of this series, we’ll look at ways to integrate Windows event logs with other telemetry sources to provide a complete picture of a network environment. The…
Windows Workstation Logs – Integration
Practical Security Steps for Every Network Engineer
IT organizations manage security in different ways. Some companies have formalized security teams with board-level interest. In these companies, the security team will have firm policies and procedures that apply…
Knowing Which Services Are Critical to a Business Service
In the age of exploration, cartographers used to navigate around the world and map the coastlines of unexplored continents. The coastline of IT, and moreover the inner landscapes and features,…
Disaster Recovery Testing – Learning to Walk the Walk
With the influx of natural disasters, hacks, and increasingly more common ransomware, being able to recover from a disaster is quickly moving up the priority list for IT departments across…
Disaster Recovery – Time To Create Our Plan!
Thus far, we have gone over how to classify our disasters and how to have some of those difficult conversations with our organization regarding Disaster Recovery (DR). We’ve also briefly…
A Case Against Chassis Switching
If you have done any work in enterprise networks, you are likely familiar with the idea of a chassis switch. They have been the de facto standard for campus and…
Out Of Office: Health Check
So far in this series, we’ve covered setting expectations as well as migrating to Office 365. Now that your organization is up and running on the new platform, how do…
Microsoft Workstation Logs – Configuration
Over the last three posts, we’ve looked at Microsoft event logging use cases and identified a set of must-have event IDs. Now we’re ready to put our security policy in…
A Sysadmin’s Guide to Spaghetti Cabling: Bridging the Gap between IT Operations and Business
No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond this…
Business Continuity – DR Is Really just a Piece of a Much Bigger Cake!
All too often, especially if disaster recovery (DR) is driven and pushed by the IT department, organizations can fall into the common mistake of assuming that they are “good to…