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Entries Tagged ‘monitor’

Malware is Using TOR to Bypass Your Domain Blacklists

About a week ago I turned on a new rule on our IPS system that is designed to detect (and block) users who are using TOR to make their activities on our network anonymous.  You can say that TOR is about protecting a user’s privacy all you want, but I’d argue that while using corporate […]

Simplifying On-call Through Alert Aggregation

One of the coolest things about working on the Web Systems Team at National Instruments is that the company has invested in a wide variety of tools to assist us with our jobs. Since we are responsible for the availability of ni.com, we have the standard URL and content monitors (Sitescope and Nagios). We also […]