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Data Protection: Culture, Tools, People, and Roles

In my previous posts about Building a Culture of Data Protection (Overview, Development, Features, Expectations), I covered the background of building a culture.  In this post, I’ll be going over the data protection…

What Makes a Thought Leader?

What do The Guru, The Expert, The Maven, The Trailblazer, The Leading Light, The Practice Leader, The Heavyweight, The Opinion Shaper, and The Influencer all have in common? These are…

Cross-Referencing Alarms: Network Security Monitoring and Network Outage Notifications

As anyone that has run a network of any size has surely experienced, with one alert, there is typically (but not always) a deeper issue that may or may not…

It’s 2 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

If you are old enough, you might remember that commercial that played late at night and went something like this… “It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?” …

Protection Methods – The Art of Data Analytics

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…

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…

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…

Top 5 Best Practices for Systems Monitoring

Systems monitoring has become a very important piece of the infrastructure puzzle. There might not be a more important part of your overall design than having a good systems monitoring…

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…