Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition

Cyber threats are increasingly becoming a huge issue in the digital world. Malicious entities find various ways to access sensitive companies’ or individual data. Data breaches, phishing, social engineering, malware, ransomware, and many more threats are evolving rapidly and becoming more dangerous every year.

Understanding the seriousness of cyber threats and taking action to fight against them is a massive step toward a safer digital environment. One of the cybersecurity practices that modern companies use to avoid potential dangers is threat intelligence.

Threat intelligence enables businesses to make faster and data-backed security decisions and be proactive in the fight against threat actors.

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Real-Time Price Monitoring System Architecture

The automation of price monitoring is the only way to stay on top of the price intelligence challenges. Either keeping up with price changes, uncovering competitor strategies, or observing historical pricing data, price monitoring reveals applicable business patterns that catalyze growth.

This white paper provides an action chain for price monitoring, from collecting target URLs to data parsing, along with tips and explanations on the most important elements and processes.

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The Complete Buyer’s Guide to Intranets

When you’re looking for intranet software to improve communication, connection, and engagement – where do you start?

Download and discover:

  • If an intranet is the right solution for your organization.
  • How to create a strategy that optimizes your project.
  • What to look for in a prospective intranet vendor.
  • The intranet features your business needs.

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Planning And Deploying a Successful Intranet

The ultimate 37-page guide to planning and launching a modern intranet, from the critical pre-launch period to maintaining engagement over time.

Learn how to:

  • Create your business case.
  • Plan your approach.
  • Build your content.
  • Launch your intranet.
  • Measure your success.

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Speed Up Your NOC With Automation

This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.

Key Points:

  • How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
  • Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
  • Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
  • What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.

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NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches

This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.

Key Points:

  • How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
  • Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
  • Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
  • Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.

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A Primer in Root Cause Analysis

In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.

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BG Unified Delivers 100% Network Uptime to Clients Using FirstWave

The BG Unified Solutions team consists of experts in different technologies like security, voice, load balancers, WAN, WAN optimization, Cloud, and Cisco Technologies. As experts across different technologies, their focus is to provide competitive, affordable and Unified Solutions to our clients.

BG Unified is a business that is built upon their clients trusting in the services that are delivered, whether that is infrastructure, backup, email, database or platform as a service, Saurabh Sareen (Sunny), BG Unified Solutions Co-Founder and Managing Director, aims for, and delivers, 100% uptime to his clients.

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How to Detect, Diagnose, and Fix Issues with Network Bandwidth

Network bandwidth has always been a precious commodity and given our current circumstances with so many people working from home, many companies have not had the bandwidth they need in the right places. This E-book will help you with some strategies on how to detect bandwidth issues, further diagnose those issues, and what actions you can take to relieve those bandwidth issues.

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An IT Managers Guide To Network Process Automation

This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation.

Key Points:

  • Focus on good operational practices.
  • Picking the right tasks.
  • Handling of common issues through automation.
  • Mapping out the automation process.
  • Time savings.
  • Checklist.

The guide discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the steps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.

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Speed Up Your NOC With Automation

This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.

Key Points:

  • How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
  • Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
  • Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
  • What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.

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NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches

This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.

Key Points:

  • How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
  • Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
  • Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
  • Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
  • Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.

Get Whitepaper

A Primer in Root Cause Analysis

In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.

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MYTH vs. REALITY

Many organizations that use Microsoft 365 hold a common misconception that Microsoft is responsible for their data protection and that data backup isn’t necessary. While Microsoft is responsible for application uptime and availability, you are responsible for the protection of your data.

To help protect your Microsoft 365 data better, we have come up with a concise eBook. This eBook demystifies the common myths surrounding Microsoft 365, explains how data can be lost in the Microsoft 365 Cloud and ways to ensure your mission-critical data is securely backed up and protected.

The eBook covers:

  • Busting the common Microsoft 365 myths.
  • Causes for data loss in Microsoft 365.
  • How Spanning Backup helps protect your Microsoft 365 data.

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Backup and DRAAS IT Buyer’s Guide

With hundreds of vendors available, how do you pick the best Backup and Disaster Recovery solution for your organization?

Download this Backup and DRaaS guide to get:

  • Organized Planning Checklists (more than 30 detailed specifications!).
  • Backup & DRaaS Features Explained.
  • Full Understanding of Market-available Data Retention and Recovery Options.
  • Detailed Product Comparison Chart Access.

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