A Systems Engineer’s job isn’t just designing systems, but to also be proactive and think about weaknesses in the system and prevent the next big outage. One day at the office recently, I started hearing reports of the internet connection running very slowly. Our firewall shows us overall stats, but doesn’t do a good job of showing “Top Talkers”.

Here is a scenario you can think about. An administrator of a company has been accused of hoarding illegal material of questionable moral content on his company network system. You have been called upon to examine the suspect server and unearth evidence related to the said illegal material. Your boss has told you that you are not allowed to shutdown the server.