ClickUp Dashboards – how to build reporting views for managers and the board of directors
Managers and management have one common question: what’s going on and are we on the right track? ClickUp Dashboards is a tool that answers this question visually, in real time, without having to collect data manually from various lists and projects. A well-built dashboard in ClickUp is the difference between “I have to check manually” […]
Certes Networks and cryptographic segmentation in industrial networks
Industrial networking (OT – Operational Technology) is one of the most challenging areas of cyber security. SCADA systems, PLCs, DCS systems and industrial IoT devices were designed for availability and determinism, not security. Many run on outdated protocols, don’t support encryption and can’t be updated without risking production downtime. Certes Networks offers an approach to […]
Next-generation NGFW – what differentiates Palo Alto firewall from classic network solutions
The term “Next-Generation Firewall” (NGFW) appears in the marketing of many vendors, but not all vendors mean the same thing by it. The classic definition of NGFW (Gartner, 2009) included state inspection, application and user identification, and integration with IPS systems. From the beginning, Palo Alto Networks had its own, more ambitious vision of what […]
WAF in F5 – how the application firewall works and what it protects against
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is one of the key security components of any organization with web applications accessible from the Internet. Unfortunately, “we have a WAF” doesn’t always mean “we’re protected” – many WAF deployments operate in “monitor only” mode, have outdated signatures or are configured so carefully that they let most attacks through. […]
Skyvia Backup – how to automatically archive data from cloud applications
Data in the cloud is safe. This is one of the most dangerous myths in IT – which is regularly verified by painful reality when an organization discovers that its Salesforce, HubSpot or Jira data has been accidentally deleted, and the SaaS provider does not have a granular backup to restore a specific record from […]
How Barracuda detects and blocks BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the costliest types of cybercrime in the world today. The FBI IC3 estimates that global losses from BEC attacks exceeded $2.9 billion in 2023 – and that’s just the reported incidents. What makes BEC so dangerous? These attacks bypass traditional spam filters because they don’t contain malicious links […]
Gimmal vs Microsoft 365 – how to extend SharePoint’s native features with compliance and retention
Microsoft 365 and SharePoint are the document platform for millions of organizations today. However, they have some limitations in terms of document lifecycle management, regulatory classification and enforcement of enterprise-scale retention policies. Gimmal is a Records Management platform that extends the native capabilities of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – not replacing them, but adding a […]
Forcepoint DLP – how to classify and protect sensitive data in network traffic
Data is every organization’s most valuable asset – and also one of the most difficult to protect, because its characteristics make it inherently mobile. Data flows through email, through the cloud, through mobile devices, through SaaS applications. The traditional approach to data protection – securing the perimeter of the network – no longer works as […]
OPSWAT MetaAccess – how to verify compliance of devices before network access
One of the most common gaps in security policies goes something like this: the organization has strict rules for endpoint protection – antivirus required, up-to-date systems, disk encryption – but there is no mechanism that actually verifies that these conditions are met before every network connection. A device that passed an audit a year ago […]
Checkmk vs integration with ITSM systems – how to combine monitoring with ticketing
Monitoring without action management is monitoring for monitoring’s sake. Thousands of alerts a day, half of which are ignored, a quarter of which result in manual ticket creation and the rest are lost in the noise – this is the reality of many IT departments that have implemented monitoring without thoughtful integration with ITSM processes. […]
