The following blog entry originally appeared on Spirent’s Broadband Blog earlier this week. As a partner of Anue Systems, Spirent has been gracious enough to share the content with us for posting here on The Network View.
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Security Pros on Twitter (SPoT): Justin Foster/@justin_foster
As the second installment of our SPoT series, The Network View turns our attention to another Canadian Security Pro, Justin Foster (@justin_foster). Mr. Foster is employed by Trend Micro during working hours, and he also maintains his own independent blog, Developing Security. Go check out his Top 10 signs you are a Security Twit post from June 2009 for a quick chuckle. On that note…
Security Pros on Twitter (SPoT): James Arlen/@myrcurial
Beginning this week, we are kicking off our new SPOT (Security Pros on Twitter) series, profiling security professionals who are present and active on Twitter. We will profile one SP each week through the rest of the summer.
Since Anue Systems (@AnueSystems) first joined in on the Twitter fun, we have followed and interacted with a variety of folks, and these are the thought leaders who we’d turn to first with a specific, hands-on question regarding security of the internal network, the cloud, or even virtualized environments.
Without further ado, let’s get to it…
PODCAST: How to Maximize Monitoring Coverage When You Run Out of SPANs or Taps
Monitoring Is Critical
As security and IT professionals, network and application monitoring has become increasingly important for a variety of reasons, including:
• New Data Security and Lawful Intercept compliance requirements that mandate full monitoring coverage, rather than sampling, the most common monitoring approach before these regulations emerged
• Service-Level Agreements that require a minimum level of performance and availability on important
services and applications
• New high-bandwidth applications such as IPTV and VoIP that must not only be monitored, but must also be delivered to the user with the packets in the correct sequence
• Increased dependence on electronics communications mediums and digital business transactions, requiring minimized downtime to support revenue and other financial goals
• Desire to shorten troubleshooting and disaster recovery activities without interrupting business processes or making customers aware that a problem happened in the first place
• Need to increase the network operations team’s productivity and to pre-empt upgrade and service needs before problems emerge
Clearly, these issues are relevant to both technical and business stakeholders, so monitoring has become a core requirement for network operations and security purposes.
Monitoring Optimization ROI Part VIII: Wrapup
Over the past several weeks, we have taken you through the three “pillars” upon which Monitoring Optimization is built: Network Visibility / Coverage, Tool Utilization, and Staff Productivity. We’ve also taken a deep dive into a hypothetical case study for Simson Confections. Let’s wrap it all up now and look at the total ROI for all three scenarios.