Author: SollievoIT

  • How Much Bandwidth Does SNMP Monitoring Consume?

    ICMP and SNMP traffic is not insignificant or negligible I recently had the question come up about how much bandwidth SNMP monitoring consumes. I did some cursory searching the web and found that others had posed the same question. Unfortunately, many responses simply said that ICMP and SNMP traffic is insignificant or negligible.  In my case,…

  • Importance of Securing Domain Administrator Accounts

    If you work in Information Technology already, securing Windows Active Directory Domain Administrator, or Domain Admin, accounts may seem like an intuitive thing to do. It does to me, however, I’ve discovered that often times, this understanding is not widely held outside of the the IT community. I wanted to write this post to frame…

  • Latest Certs – VMware VCP-NV and Check Point CCSA

    February has been certification time. I finally had the opportunity to take the Check Point Security Administration & Engineering R77 5-Day Bootcamp class at the end of January. I took the following week to re-read all of the material from the class, as well as the admin guides that were applicable to the material. I…