Using log file analysis to report on blocked traffic can help troubleshoot issues with website and application behavior, and potential security issues. This article shows how to use WebSpy Vantage to identify suspicious activity from blocked traffic log events.
Reverse proxy reporting (using WebSpy Vantage Ultimate) is a great way to gain insight to how the Internet is using your published web sites or web applications. Forward proxy reporting is all about the users accessing content on the Internet from within your corporate network. Reverse proxy reporting is the opposite. When you have a [...]
The Windows native firewall has been around for some time now. It first made its appearance in Windows XP as the Internet Connection Sharing Firewall, which was a basic inbound firewall. In Windows XP SP2 it was turned on by default and in Windows Vista, it had grown up to be both in and outbound [...]
Firewalls and proxies generate a lot of log data. Multiple gigabytes per day are commonplace now. The log files themselves are generally simple flat text files. Their size comes from the sheer volume of entries, not from being rich data types. The log file size not only consumes disk space during logging, storing, and archiving, but [...]
What is an Alias? As defined by Google, in computing terms, an alias is: An alternative name or label that refers to a file, command, address, or other item, and can be used to locate or access it. When it comes to WebSpy Vantage, an alias takes log data that does not make sense and [...]
Legacy applications and websites remain in place for longer than they should, often because there is a suspicion that they are still being used. Meanwhile, the application is hanging around consuming IT resources that could be put towards a more useful purpose. To safely decommission a web site or service, you need to be sure [...]
As a typical IT department, we log a lot data. Loads of it. Thanks to various regulatory requirements, we need to log more and more data from more and more sources. That's a lot of mores! We are also required to mine more information from those logs, and need keep these logs in their original form for [...]