Dear EriZone customers! Our legacy servicedesk system EriZone currently runs on CentOS7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. These operating systems will not get any security fixes after June 2024. For anyone planning on keeping EriZone running beyond this date, we highly recommend you contact us for an upgrade to Rocky Linux 9. As…
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There are community projects that, once implemented, become true points of reference. One of these is certainly the DRM – Dashboard Ransomware Monitor project. This project, founded by Dario Fadda in 2020, monitors ransomware groups through scraping activities, to store claims regarding victims within a permanent RSS feed. However not everyone knows that starting from…
Read MoreWe improved the upgrade and update procedure related to the Elastic Agent, fixing an issue for which external Elastic Agents would disconnect from Fleet if they were connecting through a hostname different from NetEyes’s FQDN. Moreover, we solve potential problems during the upgrade that would have occurred in case of already present outdated integrations or…
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On November 25th, in collaboration with the universities of Verona, Padova, Trento, and Bolzano, we hosted the WPCTF event—a thrilling Capture The Flag (CTF) competition that engaged over 50 cybersecurity enthusiasts. In this blog post, we’ll explore into our journey in organizing the event, focusing on the technical aspects that made WPCTF a memorable success….
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s Business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logics in order to monitor if a Business Application is really available…
Read MoreThe popular open source software suite GLPI, an acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique, has been part of the NetEye ecosystem since its beginnings, more than 15 years ago. GLPI includes a comprehensive, pre-configured IT Asset management database, an ITIL-compliant service desk (ticketing) and feature-packed inventory agents. Within the scope of NetEye, GLPI is…
Read MoreRecently we felt the need to collect anonymous metrics about how our users are visiting our websites. After some investigation, the development team proposed using Matomo: a free and open source software project which collects usage metrics while guaranteeing 100% privacy alongside the chance to be self-hosted. We decided to install it on OpenShift, since…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.33 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. With this release, NetEye welcomes Winter with a spectacular view of St. Jakob Church. It is located in Ortisei (or St. Ulrich in German), a small village in Val Gardena (Gröden in German) perfect to stroll about in, discover new things, and fall in…
Read MoreWe have released a fix for a problem related to RedHat subscriptions. Updated packages We updated the following packages:
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Suggested reader skill level: Proficient in software development Reading time: 10 min What you will learn: “Blockchain is hard.” Even if everyone has heard this sentence at least once, the truth is that it’s not. It’s just a database, with a bit of cool stuff added on top. This article will teach you how to…
Read MoreSay you’re using the SIEM Module in NetEye and are deploying the Elasticsearch Agent to your clients. You’d surely like to know if those agents are still sending data and are still connected to the Elastic Fleet server. I had this problem recently and came up with a new monitoring plugin that uses the Kibana-API…
Read MoreSome days after installing an OpenShift cluster you may notice a warning related to insights: the system is complaining because metrics are not stored in a persistent way and a restart of the container may cause the loss of metrics. In OpenShift it is possible to configure several custom metrics. In this post I will…
Read MoreWe fixed a bug where the deployment of the Icinga director would not clean up old stages, filling up the file system over multiple deploys. Updated packages For NetEye 4.32 we updated the following packages:
Read MoreSome years ago, one of my colleagues wrote an article about how to “Avoid Tornado Rules Repetition with a Map Post-modifier”. He presented an interesting and very useful way for creating Tornado rules without rewriting them. The core of his approach was based on the Mapping modifier, a functionality in the previous Tornado GUI that…
Read MoreDuring a Vulnerability Remediation process, understanding which vulnerabilities pose a real and significant risk for an organization is not so obvious, and most of the time it involves several different aspects. It takes into consideration several factors related to available resources and time, company assets, severity, compatibility with fix methodologies, and others. There is no…
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