Wireless Signal Stats | Network Security and Forensics

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subscribe | newsletter archives | December 2009 | Volume 2 Issue 2

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Happy Holidays! We hope you’ve found the Peeks Newsletter useful – we’ve certainly had fun putting it together and publishing it. As we close out 2009, we hope you'll join us for our last webinar of the year, “Cyber Security: Don't get victimized, arm yourself” on December 16th at 8:30 AM PST (11:30 AM EST).

Let us know what your network monitoring and troubleshooting new year resolutions are. Post them on wall of our Facebook fan page. We’ll be choosing our favorites and including in our February edition of Peeks. If we select your resolution, you’ll receive a $75 gift certificate from TechGeek.

Sincerely,
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Eden Hensley
Director of Marketing Communication

PRODUCT NEWS: Wireless Signal Stats Plug-in

For those of you who use OmniPeek to monitor signal strength and data rates, this plug-in is for you. It measures Signal Strength and Data Rate on all channels, and feeds those measurements to the Summary Stats View. From there the measurements can be triggered on, alarmed on, and graphed over time. Please visit MyPeek to read more and download this plug-in.

FEATURED SOLUTION: Network Security and Forensics

With more organizations relying on the cloud for their IT infrastructure or to deliver their service/products to customers, it’s crucial to be proactively monitoring for trouble. IDS/IPS systems and other security solutions fail to provide you with the details you need to locate and correct the source of an attack. Without detailed network analysis, security solutions are incomplete. With the WildPackets Distributed Solutions you can utilize network forensics to analyze historical network traffic in order to conduct investigations for security attack analysis, HR compliance, business transaction analysis, and pinpointing the source of intermittent performance issues.

Get ready now, because if you wait, it’ll be too late. Now – before a specific event actually happens – is the time to start collecting digital evidence and equip yourself to find that needle in the haystack.

Learn more:

WHITE PAPER: With today’s increasingly interconnected, always online workforce, it’s often business-critical issues that have nothing to do with performance or cyber attacks, for example, violations of industry regulations or data breaches that drive the need for post-incident analysis. Learn what you could and should be using network forensics for. Register to read.
ARTICLE: One of the best security tools for managing an enterprise and minimizing business risk is a network analyzer, such as OmniPeek. Learn why network analyzers are no longer just for troubleshooting and how today network analyzers are also good at monitoring user activity. Read more (PDF).
LIVE WEBINAR: Is your approach to cyber security a hodge-podge of data collected from a multitude of sources such as firewall logs, router logs, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), server logs, hard drives and system dumps? This webinar discusses how to arm yourself with a single solution that addresses the issues of diverse data, formats, and sources. Register to attend.

VIDEO TUTORIAL

Detecting Rogue Access Points

See a live demonstration of OmniPeek as it identifies rogue access points on a wireless network. Watch now.

PRODUCT TIPS AND TRICKS

Cyber Security, and the Networks it has to Traverse
By Jim Thor, WildPackets Professional Services

Cyber Security news and articles seem to be written on a daily basis, and the attacks they talk about are happening even more often. The statistics are staggering, and although I will not go into them here, the numbers prove that this subject cannot be ignored. See complete tip.