Site surveys are a great way to detect anomalies and track down vulnerabilities in a site network. But without a proper tool, it is a fool’s errand. NetAlly’s CyberScope, the world’s first handheld cybersecurity tool, helps mitigate risks by actively probing and scanning networks, categorizing devices, and providing real-time analytics and reports to enable effective security management. Read the review at Gestalt IT or watch the solution demo on the website.
Ramping Up Multicloud Visibility With Cisco Multicloud Defense
Enterprises’ journey to multi-cloud is often fraught with security concerns and deadlocks. As enterprises adopt multi-cloud strategies, the distribution of data and assets across various cloud providers can lead to reduced visibility, hindering security and impeding business resilience. Cisco Multicloud Defense addresses this challenge by providing unobstructed visibility and unified security across platforms, enabling consistent protection against threats and data exfiltration. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo live on the website.
Commvault Metallic ThreatWise – Discerning the First Signs to Quell an Attack Early
Early warning signs of a cyberattack exist only to the most discerning eye. Unlike traditional monitoring tools, Commvault Metallic ThreatWise utilizes a defense by deception strategy, deploying decoy assets in the environment to divert attackers and buy time for defenders to take action. With its lightweight and cost-efficient architecture, ThreatWise provides real-time insights on active and hidden threats, allowing organizations to detect and mitigate attacks at the earliest stages. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here on the website.
Executing Zero-Trust Security and Building a Protective Perimeter With HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise
Identity-driven security is critical to countering attempts of credential harvesting. HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise brings the capability to secure on-demand access with granular identity controls to organizations in regulated industries. As organizations transition to cloud-based infrastructures, traditional network perimeters become less relevant, and identity becomes the primary focus of security. By standardizing remote user access and utilizing the principle of least privilege, HashiCorp Boundary enables organizations to secure their infrastructure while granting granular authorizations and creating a centralized access workflow. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here on the website.
Querying Data at Source With Cribl Search
At the recent Security Field Day event, Cribl presented Cribl Search, a service included in Cribl Suite. Cribl Search allows users to query data in scattered addresses without having to move them. No matter where the data resides, Cribl Search lets users explore and investigate datasets in real time. Read about Cribl Search at Gestalt IT or watch the demo live on the website.
Embedding Security in the Code With Noname Security’s Active Testing V2
API security is front and center in cybersecurity, and integral to the future of APIs. Noname Security’s Active Testing v2 offers dynamic testing of APIs in shift left security, enabling organizations to infuse security deep within the code. By integrating security into the CI/CD processes, Active Testing v2 enables teams to proactively detect vulnerabilities and minimize the chances of API exploits. With its user-friendly interface and comprehensive testing capabilities, the solution empowers developers to embrace shift left security and ensure the early detection and mitigation of potential issues. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo live on the website.
Fast-Tracking Decision Making and Incident Response With Cisco’s Secure Network Analytics and XDR
The relentless onslaught of cyberattacks has made it amply clear that the appropriate countermeasure is a stringent routine of intelligently devised and religiously enforced practices. Cisco makes the path from observation to action short and speedy with Cisco Secure Network Analytics and the new Cisco XDR. Secure Network Analytics (SNA) serves as a collector and aggregator of network telemetry, providing broad security analytics, while XDR collects telemetry from various sources and analyzes it to identify threats and incidents. Together, these solutions streamline data processing, enhance threat detection, and enable prompt response, making high-security standards a priority. Read the review at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here at the website.
Designing a Lossless AI/ML Network With Cisco Data Center Networking Blueprint
Cisco presented the Cisco Data Center Networking Blueprint for AI/ML Applications, a detailed and instructive handbook on AI/ML network, at the recent Tech Field Day event. The document decodes the strict requirements of modern AI/ML workloads, and provides a blueprint for building a high-performing AI/ML network. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 Series switches offer high throughput, low latency, and congestion management features necessary for AI/ML applications, including RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) in network transport. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the presentation here at Tech Field Day.
Achieving a Consistent Policy Across Enterprise With Cisco Security Group Tag
A common policy across products and use cases can cut the chaos and solve the challenges of policy management in enterprises. Cisco’s Security Group Tag enables a central policy control, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively, and put up a strong front against cyber threats. Cisco’s approach to bridging policy islands through context sharing and the use of Security Group Tag (SGT) are described as effective solutions for centralized policy control, interoperability, and cost benefits. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Thwarting Malicious Cyberattacks With the New Lightspin CNAPP From Cisco
In this Gestalt IT article, Sulagna Saha discusses Cisco’s cloud security solution, Lightspin CNAPP, and its capabilities in protecting microservices applications from vulnerabilities and malicious cyberattacks. Saha highlights the complex nature of microservices applications and the need for layered security across development and runtime phases. She explains how Lightspin CNAPP, with its graph database technology and comprehensive scanning capabilities, can identify vulnerabilities, correlate events, and provide remediation recommendations. The article also mentions the recent acquisition of Lightspin Technologies by Cisco and provides a link to watch Cisco’s demo of Lightspin CNAPP.
Cisco Rolls Out Industrial Ethernet Catalyst Switches for the Most Rugged Outdoor Deployments
Outdoor industrial environments can be harsh to enterprise switching and wireless equipment that are most suited to work in controlled indoor settings. That’s why Cisco has launched a new set of weather-proof industrial ethernet switches that are built to provide speedy connectivity in the most unfriendly locations. Read about the Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series at Gestalt IT or watch the demo here at the website.
Drilling Down Into the Invisible Parts of the Network With ThousandEyes
Uninterrupted visibility is no longer a privilege, but an absolute essential in today’s digital scene. ThousandEyes eliminates obscurity, bringing transparency and observability into the most complex IT environments, thus unlocking accelerated innovation. Read about the platform’s new capabilities at Gestalt IT, or watch the presentation on the website.
Out-Of-Band Management for Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 Operations With Opengear Smart OOB
Opengear’s Smart Out-of-Band (OOB) solution is expanding and capable of serving customers for everyday use cases instead of just emergency scenarios. Opengear initially focused on console server access and sideline OOB management, providing features like Lighthouse software that offers centralized management for all Opengear appliances and deployed resources. The company’s Smart OOB provides reliable connectivity and a management plane for deployment, automation, and troubleshooting, and their enhancement, Routed Management Fabric, creates an overlay that enables routed IP access based on industry standards for people outside the serial space. Learn more by reading this article on Gestalt IT.
Infusing Automation in EveryDay Networking Tasks With BackBox
Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live included a presentation from BackBox, which demonstrated its differentiated automation platform that simplifies day-to-day networking use cases involving upgrades, network configurations, and more. Additional features include 2300 pre-built scripts, hundreds of pre-configured automation blocks, hyperintelligent automation, and a rollback option in case of a failed update. This article from Gestalt IT goes into more detail on the BackBox solution.
Tapping Into Software Extensibility With Morpheus Data
Hybrid multi-cloud mastery no longer entails hiring certified skills, but having the right solution that can make the road less rocky. In this article, Sulagna Saha delves into the Morpheus platform’s extensibility feature, which enables users to customize the platform to suit their needs, eliminating the need to use multiple solutions. The Morpheus platform provides hybrid cloud automation enabling multi-cloud implementation in record time. Read about the platform’s extensibility feature at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Making Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Painless With RackN Digital Rebar
RackN Digital Rebar extends the automation capabilities of Infrastructure as Code to any infrastructure making lifecycle management easy, effortless and self-driving. In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses how RackN’s Digital Rebar architecture provides a straightforward way for organizations to deploy and manage their infrastructure reliably, transparently, and repetitively, simplifying the provisioning and management of infrastructure by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation. Watch the demo on the website or read the review at Gestalt IT.
Getting Off the Storage Refresh Treadmill With StorPool
StorPool’s storage model is distinct from traditional storage platforms as it offers storage as a service by using a massively parallel, multi-node system with shared-nothing architecture and multiple redundancy. StorPool’s platforms are designed to handle the extreme demands of modern applications as it is always on and requires no downtime for upgrades or expansion and provide data protection by triple-writing data across all storage devices within storage clusters. Additionally, it provides linear scalability of storage performance regardless of any expansion in overall capacity or peaks in performance demand by including lightweight standard servers to the existing cluster. Read more in this article on the Gestalt IT website and watch their presentation from Storage Field Day to learn more.
Preventing Attack Escalation With Real-Time Encryption Detection in the New Zerto 10
Ransomware has eluded real-time detection a long time. That is about to change. Zerto is introducing real-time encryption anomaly detection in Zerto 10. The new Zerto 10 solution reinforces its capabilities with real-time encryption detection, a cyber resilience vault, secure appliance, and protection for Azure at scale. Zerto 10’s real-time detection continuously scans and searches for signs of encryption, empowering organizations to swiftly discover and take action against ransomware threats. Read how Zerto’s new real-time capabilities enhance ransomware resilience and help contain blast radius, at Gestalt IT. Also catch the solution demo on the website.
Building Better Applications at Reduced Cost With Couchbase
At the heart of digital transformation are applications. Couchbase provides applications a multimodel database platform that is high-performing, flexible and scalable, and provides breakthrough economics. Couchbase’s multimodel database, Capella, streamlines application development by providing developers with data technology that is flexible, fast, and efficient. Capella integrates JSON databases and a multimodel system and has differentiated capabilities like query tools, analytics on active data, multi-record transactions, and geographic replication. With Capella’s granular resource scaling, developers can handle each service with the appropriate environmental resource and achieve peak performance, and by choosing Couchbase, organizations can eliminate the cost of using an assortment of databases, reduce redundancy, simplify architecture, and reduce complexity. Read about it at Gestalt IT or watch the demo on the website.
Integrating Native Data Protection to Any Infrastructure Codelessly With HYCU R-Cloud
Companies are facing multi-cloud and SaaS infrastructures at ever-increasing rates. While data protection is already difficult, multi-cloud compounds the complexities even further, requiring data protection services to adopt new solutions, such as HYCU Protégé and R-Cloud, that offer native and automated data protection, extensive visibility, and compliance features in all infrastructures with no additional coding. HYCU’s data protection innovation and modernization efforts aim to address companies’ struggles in safeguarding their data across multi-cloud and SaaS platforms. This article from Gestalt IT discusses the latest updates to HYCU R-Cloud, which was shown as part of Cloud Field Day 17.