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Account Takeover IS Your Problem

Phishing and malware are scary enough, but the number-one tactic used by bad actors to get access to and take over accounts is something different: using compromised credentials. Why? Because it’s so easy. Data breaches happen almost constantly, and credentials get leaked. At the same time, people are prone to reuse the same few passwords across all their accounts. These two facts spell trouble, as it’s almost impossible for an IT professional to know if working credentials to their company email or CRM are floating around the dark web. Almost impossible that is, until now.

Network baseline: new technologies, new challenges

The issue of network baseline arose quite some time ago. Everything started from the understanding that networks are not static entities, but are a set of elements that change over time. It was also understood that networks are not only made up of physical and tangible elements, such as a router or a switch, but we must also have more abstract elements, such as the traffic pattern over a WAN link, for example.

Auvik Turns 8: A Look Back on Our First 8 Years

2011 was a big year for pop culture: Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the knot, Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men, and the theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 marked the end of an era. While our eyes were turned to the screen, something else was happening—two former co-workers were deciding it was time to start a new adventure together. Know what that means?

Motadata's Network Configuration Management Software

Motadata's Network Configuration Management helps users deploy policy compliant configurations, alerts them on out of process changes, monitors devices for configuration changes, backup and restore device configurations, manage configuration changes. It works in a multi-vendor environment and it can work with almost all the devices on your network.

Accelerating Your Deployment of the SolarWinds Orion Platform to Microsoft Azure

The SolarWinds Orion Platform and its modules are now Azure Certified applications and available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. During this video you'll see how to find SolarWinds within the Azure Marketplace, and how easy and fast it is to automate the deployment of the Orion Platform onto Azure virtual machines.

What Does Wi-Fi 6 Mean for MSPs?

Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax if you want to get technical, is the latest version of the 802.11 standard for wireless network transmissions that we all know as Wi-Fi. And if you’ve been on any tech news websites lately, you’ll know the topic is taking the tech world by storm. To get to the bottom of all the Wi-Fi 6 buzz, we talked with Lee Badman, a wireless network architect and expert, about what it means for MSPs and whether they should buy into the hype.