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The Growth of Vulnerability Assessment: A Look at What Nessus Offers Today

Tenable

The Nessus team continues to develop advanced assessment capabilities, including visibility into new operating systems, exploitable vulnerabilities and container instances. After five more years, Nessus’ operating system support had expanded dramatically to include over 20,000 plugins and Nessus had been downloaded over 5,000,000 times.

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How to Manage Your Nessus Software Updates

Tenable

offers system administrators a bit of both. How to backup and restore Nessus. Nessus admins can use the command-line interface (Nessuscli) to manually back up all licenses and settings on demand (scan results aren’t part of the backup). Learn how to take advantage of the newest features in Nessus 8.10

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Do You Need Half a Sysadmin?

Datavail

But what do you have more work than your system administration team can handle, but not enough for another full-time employee? Automated backups can be implemented with extra hands on deck. Our expert team of system administrators and infrastructure support services provide reliable, scalable technology solutions.

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Tips to Improve Your Home Wi-Fi Performance

CableLabs

Others may require a change by your systems administrator. Schedule and perform large file backups during overnight hours. Also consider lowering the video resolution on your webcam to 720p to ensure great video while reducing the risk of the kids competing with you for Wi-Fi bandwidth while binge-watching Star Wars movies.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: As Feds Hunt CL0P Gang, Check Out Tips on Ransomware Response, Secure Cloud Management and Cloud App Data Privacy

Tenable

Also, review concrete guidance on cloud system administration and on designing cloud apps with privacy by default. Have tools and processes in place that let you detect early signs of an attack, so you can isolate and contain impacted systems before widespread damage is done. And much more!

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The software layer can consist of operating systems, virtual machines, web servers, and enterprise applications. The infrastructure engineer supervises all three layers making sure that the entire system. However, according to Steve Traugott , “that got me conflated with systems integrator, so I later defaulted to engineer myself.”.

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2023 MSP Benchmark Survey: Where Executives Differ From Their Tech Partners

Kaseya

MSP owners, partners, vice presidents and directors were classified under executives, while managers, engineers, system administrators and technicians were grouped as technicians. Most respondents (63%) are technicians, while the remaining 37% are executives. Download the 2023 MSP Benchmark Survey report for a detailed breakdown.

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