It’s really easy now to activate OTP on your personal account with NetEye with our new authentication method. In the latest 4.38 version of NetEye we’ve introduced a new product to manage authentication (documentation here). In the future thanks to this new product we’ll be able to define the various actions that each user can…
Read MoreIn this blog post I’m abandoning advice and tips on our software suite for once and moving on to show you an important best practice that we recommend to all our customers for their servers. But what do you do for laptops, which are our primary work tool? I didn’t think much about it…. While…
Read MoreAt the beginning of the month we released NetEye version 4.37 that contains Elastic Stack 8.14.3. Every version update of Elastic has both improvements and additions. To see all available integrations in NetEye, click on the screenshot here: As you can see the changes range from cloud integration, to ticketing, to not forgetting security, networking,…
Read MoreA customer last week asked me to implement the following use case: When a production PLC device (programmable logic controller) goes offline, any associated service must be automatically switched off, since it needs to connect to the PLC in order to exchange data from the source server, and for that the PLC must be active….
Read MoreBeginning with NetEye version 4.26, Alyvix has been fully integrated into NetEye. Currently Alyvix within NetEye is implemented as the neteye-alyvix module, and is part of our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) world. We have Elastic with all the functionality of traditional APM, and then for synthetic monitoring we have Alyvix. In the past few weeks…
Read MoreTogether with the NetEye 4.21 release, we also released NEP (an abbreviation that stands for NetEye Extension Packs) and now it’s possible to install it using the RPM present in the Official NetEye Repositories. If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to look at how these NEPs have been set up. The…
Read MoreWe were recently asked how to dynamically monitor folders with Icinga. Several of our clients monitor folders whose names change from day to day. For example, suppose every day I want to see if there is a file named with the date of that particular day, or I’d like to see if there is a…
Read MoreWe have several customers using IBM AS400 whom we’ve helped in the past collect logs of system administrators under NetEye 3. Now with NetEye 4 we’ve improved log collection, making it compliant with the ECS standard and configuring a special internal port (5514) for NetEye to process these logs and syslog logs in general. Let’s…
Read MoreVeeam is a widely used and well-known backup system. A customer recently asked me if he could check on the operation of his Veeam-based backup system by verifying the Windows event log, since the standard checks used within the community did not provide him with the current status of his Veeam infrastructure. This use case…
Read MoreSeveral customers have asked us how they can collect DNS logs. In our solution, we proposed a Packetbeat Agent that allows you to collect data and send them to our centralized NetEye SIEM directly, or via a NetEye satellite. The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a hierarchy of names for computers and services on the…
Read MoreWe recently integrated two dashboards into NetEye SIEM to check what is happening within Active Directory, a component that is present in the vast majority of our customer environments. These two dashboards start from the collection of security events that are gathered across the various Windows servers that make up the infrastructure, and are then…
Read MoreOn one hand we have Alyvix 3, our visual monitoring tool for continuously tracking the user experience. We’ve also just released Alyvix 3 Server, which lets us easily schedule and administer our test cases. And we also have our NetEye monitoring system. In this blog, I’d like to show you how we can integrate all…
Read MoreThe Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference method for publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures. The National Cybersecurity FFRDC, operated by the MITRE Corporation, maintains the system with funding from the National Cyber Security Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The system was officially launched for the public…
Read MoreAs the number of cybercrime events, incidents of identity theft, theft of intellectual property, and cyberattacks continue to rise, there is an increasing need to provide adequate network security to defend against these types of threats to organizations. Defending against these types of threats is very difficult for an organization, and the attacker will always…
Read MoreAfter the government recently passed a law asking everyone to limit travel and gatherings, I decided to only shop online. I’m not alone in this – many other people decided to do this too, bringing the sites that provide these services down to their knees, since a large number of users were all trying to…
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