Log & Event Manager v5.7 RC Now Available: Scheduled Searching, License...
The time has come for yet another Log & Event Manager (LEM) Release Candidate! The RC is already available on the Customer Portal for all LEM customers under maintenance. As a Release Candidate you...
View ArticleWhat We're Working on - Log & Event Manager Edition
To receive updates on the LEM roadmap, JOIN thwack and BOOKMARK this page (Updated July 9, 2014)Following our 6.0 release of LEM (more info: ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF LEM 6.0), we're back to...
View ArticleShellShock Vulnerability and SolarWinds Products
We've been getting an increasing number of questions about the ShellShock vulnerability that was announced, this post will collect the status across different products into one place to make it easy...
View ArticleLEM v6.0.1 Now Available - Smarter Than Your Average Dot-Release!
Last week, we released version 6.0.1 of Log & Event Manager. Normally we don't make too much noise about service releases (minor dot releases) 'round these parts, but this time we decided to make...
View ArticleCheck Out Quicker & Easier Config with the Log & Event Manager v6.1 Release...
The Log & Event Manager (LEM) team has been hard at work on a release intended to make your lives easier. We know you're swamped and decided to take a little time to make it faster to get LEM up...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Log & Event Manager 6.1 - Better Config,...
The Log & Event Manager team is pleased to announce the official release of LEM 6.1. Features included in this release:NEW: Getting Started experience - configure LEM basic settings and easily walk...
View ArticleLog & Event Manager Appliance Security and Data Protection
Here on the Log & Event Manager product team we often get questions about how we maintain our appliance and ensure integrity of the data we collect. We previously published this KB article, but...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Patch Manager v2.1 - Automated 3rd Party...
The Patch Manager team is pleased to announce general availability of Patch Manager version 2.1. All customers under active maintenance can find the download in the SolarWinds Customer Portal, and...
View ArticleAuditing Microsoft Exchange with Log & Event Manager and LOGbinder EX
We wrote back in 2012 about the challenges of SharePoint auditing and how to address them via Auditing SharePoint with LEM & LOGbinder SP, but the folks over at Monterey Technology Group (the same...
View ArticleDetecting Malicious Insiders with Log & Event Manager
We've seen time and again that dividing your security attention between the inside and the outside threat (and unfortunately the blend of both - when outsider leverages or becomes an insider) is an...
View ArticlePatching Virtual Systems & New Patch Manager 3rd Party Updates
It's been a while since we talked SolarWinds Patch Manager and patching in general here on the Product Blog, but with VMWorld 2015 right around the corner all things virtual are on our minds. Here's a...
View ArticleFISMA / NIST 800-53 Compliance with SolarWinds Products
As a part of helping untangle compliance initiatives, a popular request on the federal side is FISMA (Federal Information Systems Management Act) Compliance. In this post, I'll outline what FISMA...
View ArticleThe Future of PCI Thanks to Today's Reality
We caught an article this week over on Bank Info Security's website about The Future of PCI. The PCI Security Standards Council revealed some of their thinking about where PCI needs to go during a...
View ArticleSimple Cyber Security Tips
Recently, the Security Team here at SolarWinds conducted a survey to gather information about security risks you felt would be the most detrimental to your network. While it was clear the reality is...
View ArticleWho Watches the Watcher? Admin Privileges are a Little Scary, but Don’t Have...
I was watching a recent webcast titled, “Protecting AD Domain Admins with Logon Restrictions and Windows Security Log” with Randy Franklin Smith where he talked (and demonstrated) at length techniques...
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