Articles written by Steve Petryschuk

Allocating money in your IT budget for network monitoring in 2021 may be more important than ever. Here are five reasons why.

You can streamline troubleshooting, shrink mean time to resolution & spare network users from prolonged downtime with Auvik. Here’s how.

Where do you start when you're managing a new network and are looking to make a stellar first impression? These 6 steps can help you get…

Network connectivity issues can be some of the worst to troubleshoot. But with Auvik, problems can be solved in seconds just by popping…

Old, unused network devices create security risks, eat up IT time, and bloat operating costs. Here's how to keep IT infrastructure fresh…

Managing a lot of remote workers right now? Here’s how to use VPN monitoring to stay on top of capacity issues and keep workers connected.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, network performance needs to be rock solid so users can access the resources they need, when they need…

Two-factor authentication or 2FA requires a user to identify themselves in two ways—or using two different methods—before allowing…

Network segmentation—breaking a network into smaller chunks—improves network visibility, monitoring, security, and performance.…

You probably have support for NetFlow or other flow protocols on your client devices already. That means you can quickly and…

What can you be doing to continually improve your network device security? Here are 5 things to look at.

A Layer 3 switch combines the capabilities of a Layer 2 switch and a router in one device. Does this mean the death of the router is…

A new Sophos report reveals IT pros can’t identify almost half (45%) of the traffic flowing through their networks. That’s a massive…

Network topology visualization can provide instant client context to service techs, speed up training time, expedite troubleshooting,…

It’s obvious you need to deal with emergency and critical network alerts. But what about simple warning alerts? Your first impulse may…