A denial-of-service attack is any attempt to interrupt or inflict downtime upon IT systems, but a basic DoS threat is smaller in scale than its DDoS counterpart. With the former, the influx of traffic may come from a single source, while in a DDoS attack, traffic comes from numerous sources – making it more difficult to deal with.

During an audit a few years ago, I revealed to the client’s security team that corporate payroll information on every employee, including the CEO, was being archived in an output queue (called PAYROLL) for weeks at a time. Due to poor configuration, this information was accessible to every employee.

Network monitoring software does not have to be overly complex to configure and operate. Intermapper is easy to use and gives you all the network analysis features you need at an affordable price.

Flexible alerting and notification features can help you take a proactive approach to network management by keeping you one step ahead of errors and outages.