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Do you know what the most common cause of network outages and performance problems is? Misconfiguration. For as much time and energy as people spend talking about issues such as infrastructure and cybercrime, the truth is that basic low-level configuration challenges are still the biggest “threat” to properly-functioning networks.

The entire Motadata team feels elated in informing you that Motadata Upgrade Release 7.6.400 has been rolled out and is available for installation from October 2020. We understand that many of our customers are already generating value, cost-efficiencies, and competitive edge with their existing Motadata version. But the update has been engineered to augment the entire platform’s value-proposition and making it an obvious choice for an upgrade.

In this blog in the IT security under attack series, we will learn about an advanced Active Directory (AD) domain controller (DC) attack to obtain persistence in AD environments. Dubbed DCShadow, this is a late-stage kill chain attack that allows a threat actor with admin (domain or enterprise admin) credentials to leverage the replication mechanism in AD to register a rogue domain controller in order to inject backdoor changes to an AD domain.

In the first of our new technical blogs, Solution Architect Cameron Parry explains how network and cloud architects can effectively use Console Connect within their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. More than 20 years ago, Peter Deutsch and James Gosling outlined the eight fallacies of distributed computing.

Fiber optic cables carrying massive amounts of information on pulsating beams of light are a critical part of the physical infrastructure supporting our digital society. By their nature, these cables are highly exposed, spanning huge distances in territories beyond the control of a network operator whether underground, under water or on aerial cables, and popping up in equipment huts.

During the Data World event, Erwin Halmans, Project Manager of Data-Driven Network Operations & Assurance at T-Mobile Netherlands, Shounit Lax-Swisa, CEO of Company Booster, and Anodot Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder Ira Cohen got together to discuss the future of network monitoring.

Just imagine the current situation continues well into the foreseeable future—let’s merge reality with a little fiction. The apocalypse is over, but life has changed permanently. This means we’re going to wear masks in public transport, shops, and restaurants and follow sports events on television instead of in the stadium. But hey, beer is much cheaper at home anyway. Office jobs are outsourced, but not into countries with cheap labor—they’re outsourced to our own homes.

Network performance monitoring has become a standard practice for modern businesses. With the shift towards large cloud-based applications, and hosted services, businesses rely on optimal network performance to sustain some of their key applications. Because of that, tools like network performance monitoring software have piqued the interest of users even outside of the IT team.

Today we are introducing the Agent Modes to help our users to configure the client / server relation between monitoring agents. This article describes the differences between the old settings and the new one. The documentation on Agent Modes is available at Agent Modes. This article refers to old settings that are no longer available in the App and it should be read only by users used to these old settings.