Splunking Microsoft Windows Firewalls

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on April 14, 2015 Operational Intelligence Splunk, Security, Microsoft
Intro

Without exception, if you are an experienced security analyst, then you know the importance of firewall logs and the invaluable network traffic related data that they provide. Many of the key strategies of information security revolve around the network traffic of an organization and the rules that govern it. No matter the type of firewall, whether it is a hardware appliance or a software/OS level firewall, it should be logged for security and auditing purposes.  

Given the significance of the firewall logs themselves, it is easy to see the importance of monitoring for...

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Ruling with Drupal Commerce

Posted by Casey Fox on April 07, 2015 Drupal Rules, Commerce, eCommerce

Drupal commerce is pretty sweet out of the box, but there are a few ways we can boost the experience and management with one simple module - Rules. It’s one of the dependencies for commerce, but you may not notice it in action, unless you need it. Today we’ll look at a few ways you can utilize rules to improve the commerce experience.

First let’s check out donations. Drupal Commerce Donate has been around for a few years, although it’s still in beta. It centers on the premise to provide the user a way to donate a set...

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Stay Drupal Sharp

Posted by Jon Reid on March 31, 2015 Drupal Drupal, Skills

It's all about the skills. To quote Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it". We all have multiple things demanding our attention each day. Current projects, support, documentation and of course your non-work life. How can you be certain that you're staying sharp? Drupal, like life, can move pretty fast. Stop and look around.

One of the key things you can do to keep your skills razor sharp is to simply keep up to date. And I don't just mean Drupal 8. There's plenty of action on the Drupal 7 front. And let's not...

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Interpreting Energy

Posted by Rishi Das on March 24, 2015 Drupal

Energy consumption, usage, and awareness are continuing to become the topics of business meetings, university programs, and even children’s shows. These children are growing up with a stronger awareness of energy saving than ever before. Students and professionals are using the growing knowledge base of energy awareness technologies to research and create new ways to reduce wastage and save costs.

The prevalence of costly and wasteful energy consumption is a national and international problem for almost all organizations. With the advent of information technology tools that allow...

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Distributed Management Console: Monitoring your deployment

Posted by Ashley Mitchell on March 17, 2015 Operational Intelligence Deployment, Splunk 6.2, Distributed Management Console

Intro

So you did it. You early adopter you! You love having the latest and greatest Splunk Enterprise has to offer and upgraded to Splunk Enterprise 6.2. The new UI is snazzy, the new regex field extractor wizard is magical, the Search Head Clustering feature is what we've all been waiting for, and how about that savvy new App bar display? And that is not all Splunk Enterprise 6.2 has to offer. Here’s the situation: you are on your Splunk 6.2 instance and you navigate over to the settings drop-down and there it is in green staring at you, the Distributed Management Console (DMC)....

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