These days, one of the most important aspects of cyber security is network monitoring. We have already published a detailed post on the importance and how to monitor the network. We suggest you read it. In this post, we'll take a look at Datadog Network performance monitor to help you understand the different aspects of [...]
PRTG Network Monitor is an agentless network monitoring software. This network monitor tool consists of two main system parts: Core server and Probe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These days, one of the most important aspects of cyber security is network monitoring. We have already published a detailed post on the importance and how to monitor the network. We [...]
In this post, we have explained why we should have network monitoring software in our network, and in this post, you have learned how these software work. Now we are going to examine one of the most popular network monitoring software: Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor. SolarWinds is one of the world’s leading producers of IT [...]
GLBA provides limited privacy protections against the sale of your private financial information. Additionally, the GLBA codifies protections against pretexting, the practice of obtaining personal information through false pretenses. The primary concern of GLBA is to ensure the confidentiality of customers' personally identifiable information (PII) and financial information by following certain privacy and security standards. [...]
First of all, we recommend that you read our other post entitled "TCP/UDP Ports". But, what are free port scanner tools? A port scan learns which ports on a router or firewall are open, and can use this information to find a computer system’s potential weaknesses. A port-scanner tool asks about each port, one at [...]
Monitoring is one of the key components of network security. A network monitoring system (NMS) monitors the network for problems caused by overloaded or crashed servers, network connections or other devices. Network monitoring is a critical IT process where all networking components like routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and VMs are monitored for fault and performance and [...]
This post is dedicated to TCP/UDP ports. But what's port? In computer networking, a port is a communication endpoint. A computer port is a type of electronic, software (or programming) related docking point through which information flows from a program on your computer or to your computer from the Internet or another computer in a [...]
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a person or device. In fact, Authentication technology provides access control for systems by checking to see if a user's credentials match the credentials in a database of authorized users or in a data authentication server. The authentication process always runs at the start of the [...]
In recent years, issues such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Biometric Authentication have become more common due to problems in traditional authentication methods. In fact, biometric methods can be considered a subset of MFA. In this post, we take a look at the most common methods used in biometric authentication. There are a number of [...]