Monitoring
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Real-Time Network Monitoring Guide & Best Tools for 2025
Businesses rely heavily on their networks for communication, transactions, and data sharing. As the backbone of modern-day communication, ensuring a network is functioning at optimal levels is crucial to the overall success and performance of an organization. This brings us to the concept of real-time network health monitoring, an essential practice for ensuring that businesses can detect, diagnose, and respond…
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WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A “HackTool” called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly — like blasting their fans at high speed — once the HackTool had been quarantined. I know,…
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5 Best Proxies for Ad Testing & Performance Monitoring in 2025
As a digital agency operating in the fast-paced world of digital advertising, it’s essential to ensure your campaigns perform optimally across different regions and platforms. Testing ads and monitoring performance can sometimes be challenging due to geographic restrictions, varying internet speeds, and the need for real-time data. This is where proxies come into play. By acting as intermediaries between you…
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Electronic employee monitoring reaches an all-time high – Computerworld
Truckers, for example, are routinely monitored by the employers to ensure time management principles, record accidents, and ensure driver safety. Knowledge workers at desk jobs can also benefit from monitoring, Cassell said, as it can help them meet deadlines and keep up with business goals. For example, Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform designed to help organizations improve employee…
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DHS says CISA will not stop monitoring Russian cyber threats
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says that media reports about it being directed to no longer follow or report on Russian cyber activity are untrue, and its mission remains unchanged. “CISA’s mission is to defend against all cyber threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure, including from Russia,” the US cyber agency posted to X. “There has been no change in…
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5 Best BGP Monitoring & Anomaly Detection Tools for 2025
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the only routing methodology that operates on the Internet. It is central to the routing decision-making implemented by routers. Thus, it enables data to traverse networks across different Autonomous Systems (ASes). Given its foundational importance to internet traffic flow, BGP has unfortunately become a prime target for malicious actors. The nature of BGP’s design, which…
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UK’s new Cyber Monitoring Centre wants to create a digital Richter scale for cyber attacks
A new Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) has been launched in the UK to help measure the severity of cyber threats and their potential impact on organizations in the region. The CMC is an independent nonprofit organization set up by the UK insurance industry to boost trust in the cyber insurance market and improve the nation’s understanding and response to cyber…
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Managed Detection and Response – How are you monitoring?
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are now a critical component of enterprise security operations, helping organizations detect, respond to, and manage threats in an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape. At Smarttech247 we are seeing firsthand how SIEM platforms can struggle to keep up with modern demands. In MDR (Managed Detection and Response) we need to be very particular…
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What Is Digital Experiene Monitoring (DEM)? Definitions + Tools
IT and software development teams use Digital Experience Monitoring, or DEM, to process, analyze, and optimize how their company’s employees engage with organizational IT infrastructure and other digital assets. DEM combines the critical features found in application performance management (APM) and end-user experience monitoring (EUEM) to create a more comprehensive solution gathering i acting upon insight into user experiences and…
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Workplace monitoring is still out of control – employees are stressed out, dejected, and rebelling against surveillance tools by using ‘mouse jigglers’
One-in-five workers is now being monitored by an activity tracker, new research shows, and it’s not doing much for employee morale. Tracked employees are 73% more likely to distrust their employer and twice as likely to be job-hunting as those who aren’t tracked, according to analysis from Software Finder. Meanwhile, three-quarters of workers whose location isn’t tracked say they’d be…
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