July 15, 2020

SCOM Security – the best tips, tools and MPs to secure your SCOM environment

Bruce Cullen / Nathan Gau

With cyber-attacks on the rise, security is top of the agenda for most IT teams. But there is no need to shell out for costly security products when SCOM has the building blocks to do security monitoring and is great for analysing log data.

Join Cookdown’s Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, and Nathan Gau, Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Microsoft, for this month’s Coffee Break episode where they will be discussing how SCOM can help with intrusion detection, highlighting known vulnerabilities and augmenting organizational best practices surrounding security. They will also be showing off the latest version of Nathan Gau’s Security Monitoring MP, built from customer requests to use SCOM to do exactly these things.

In this webinar, you will learn how:

SCOM can be used as a security monitoring tool with the Security Monitoring MP
To detect legacy protocols
To identify security vulnerabilities before attackers do
To look for signs that your IT estate is under attack
To help implement Security best practices and processes through SCOM

Meet the author

Author

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Nathan Gau

Senior Technical Specialist @ Microsoft

Nathan has been working in IT for over 25 years across various industries. He is currently a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft, doing cyber security work for public sector customers. In the SCOM world, he is best known for his white papers on alert management and has authored two Security solutions for SCOM. The first turned SCOM into a log monitoring and operational best practices security solution. The second built on that and turned SCOM into an edge device for Microsoft Sentinel.