Welcome to the latest version of our Service Management solution EriZone version 5.8. Product: EriZoneRelease Number: 5.8Release Date: April 30, 2020Release Type: MinorPrevious Release: 5.7 These release notes for EriZone 5.8 describe new features and improvements, and provide information on how to upgrade. Enhancements Upgrade of OTRS to 5.0.40 including bugfixes and security updates. EriZoneNetEye4Problems: NetEye4/Icinga dashboard…
Read MoreAs you may already know from our other blog posts, Würth Phoenix is an official partner of the German company SOS Berlin, the creator of the SOS JobScheduler. In our role as partner, we not only resell the JobScheduler solution, but also offer consulting activities for SOS JobScheduler implementations, sizing and so on. Today I…
Read MoreIn this period of Smart Working I am deepening my study of Atlassian products, in particular Jira Software and Jira Service Desk. One of the things that impressed me most about Atlassian products is the flexibility of the search engine given by the JQL (Jira Query Language). I must say that initially when I saw…
Read MoreYour web shop is down, a fact that was already reported by your monitoring system. After two minutes the first customer sends in a ticket, asking if you’re aware of the problem. And then another 12 customers after him, resulting in 13 quite useless tickets. Or perhaps you have a planned ERP downtime, and you’ve…
Read MoreYes, we did it again! As every year FOSDEM is really inspiring for us, bringing important ideas and new solutions.
Read MoreStarting in March 2020, Microsoft will release an update which includes hardening measures for LDAP binding. Read the full advisory here: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023 . This affects all of us who still use plain LDAP to perform queries in Active Directory. Starting in March we will be forced to use secure LDAP binding, because AD will deny…
Read MoreAs a Christmas gift, my dear friend and colleague Gabriele presented the EriZone ISMS tool, a specifically customized and configured EriZone to support the documentation of a company’s Information Security Management System based on ISO/IEC 27001. Follow this link to read his post first: https://www.neteye-blog.com/2019/12/use-erizone-to-maintain-and-improve-an-isms-based-on-iso-27001/. In this post I will give more technical details about…
Read MoreThis year my colleague Mirko and I had among our annual goals the use of EriZone to support ISO 27001. The project was not highly detailed, so therefore we felt free to interpret it the way we thought would be most useful for a medium-sized company. Obviously we needed to know exactly what ISO 27001…
Read MoreToday I’ll present you a hidden gem in EriZone and OTRS: With a few clicks, your favorite browser’s search bar will be able to search for ticket numbers or full text in EriZone. The browsers’ search and address bar fields come with some predefined search engines, but can also be extended with your own searches….
Read MoreTwo screens for monitoring, ticketing, event management, CRM, project management and Outlook, and at least another two screens for all the applications that you need to manage… that often seems to be the minimum for working efficiently. However, you probably don’t want your office to look like a NASA flight control room… To organize the…
Read MoreIf you think you don’t need to reduce the open tickets number in your Service Desk, ask your Service Desk Manager how many they are. Take care that Open Tickets are all those not closed (in all queues), no cheating! Did you do it? Did the answer surprise you? Then keep reading because this article…
Read MoreIn our ethical hacking activities there are three different phases in which we clash with the themes of SIEM: PLANNING – The phase prior to the activity where we define the scope of engagement, be it for a Vulnerability Assessment, a Penetration Test or simulating a real attack CHALLENGE – The activity, corresponding to Vulnerability…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest version of our Service Management solution EriZone version 5.7. Product: EriZoneRelease Number: 5.7Release Date: July 31, 2019Release Type: MinorPrevious Release: 5.6 These release notes for EriZone 5.7 describe new features and improvements, and provide information on how to upgrade. Enhancements ACL can now be applied for Categories in customer ITSM Advanced (EZPROD-18) Addition…
Read MoreModern society has continued its increasing use of digital solutions, and today large amounts of sensitive data are stored digitally. As the value and sensitivity of this information increases, the number of potential threats will increase accordingly. Verizon Enterprise’s RISK team recently published a report in cooperation with the United States Secret Service (USSS), the…
Read MoreThese whiteboards with handdrawn swimlanes and lots of apparently randomly placed sticky notes are present nowadays in most developers’ offices. Kanban (Japanese for “signboard”) is however not just a visualization strategy. It originated as a method for production planning, first used at Toyota, and its ideas were adopted for software development 15 years ago. A…
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