ExisorWhat is a Passive Attack? A passive attack refers to an unauthorized attempt to covertly access and monitor network traffic, without actually manipulating or modifying the data. The primary goal of this type of cyberattack is to quietly gather sensitive information, such as private login details, personal data, financial information, or other confidential data, without […]
What are Logging and Monitoring Best Practices? Logging refers to the practice of logging errors and changes or to the application logs that are collected. The purpose of logging is to create an ongoing record of application events. Log files can be used to review any event within a system, including failures and state transformations. […]
What are Employee Monitoring Ethics? The demand for employee monitoring software has increased over the last few years, as the pandemic caused many employees to transition to remote work and supervisors found themselves challenged to find new methods to supervise them. It has been common knowledge that activity at work will be monitored but being […]
What is Bossware? Bossware is software to be aware of, whether you have a boss, or the boss is you. Bossware is a term that encompasses any form of employee productivity or performance monitoring software. The pandemic saw a dramatic rise in remote work and a concurrent rise in the number of employers wanting assurances […]
What is IT Monitoring? IT monitoring is the process of gathering metrics about the operations of an IT environment’s hardware and software to ensure that the equipment is available and performing to the level expected and necessary to maintain your business. This is achieved by using trends to validate infrastructure updates before applications or services […]
What is a Security Operations Center? A security operations center (SOC) is a centralized facility that houses an information security team that is responsible for continuously monitoring, analyzing, and improving an organization’s security posture. The goal of the SOC team is to prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity incidents, around the clock. SOC teams […]