I’ve waked around one of two organisations, across a load of verticals and well I see people post things online about common technology generalisations and frankly it sometimes leaves me wondering what networks they have been in, but also am I just on another planet? So, I thought I would jot down some notes on common tech I see in orgs during my business travels but also on in the ciberz! It’s not a list of everything I see, it’s just what appears in my head as quite bloody common.

Identity management

• Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
• Azure AD Connect
• Azure Active Directory

I rarely see orgs without an active directory environment (usually they have multiple forests and multiple domains)

Firewalls & VPNs

• CISCO ASA
• Palo Altos
• Sophos UTMs
• Checkpoint Firewalls
• Juniper
• Fortinet Firewalls
• Pulse VPN
• Windows Server RRAS
• SONICWALL
• Unifi
• Draytek
• Watchguard

Switches

• CISCO
• HP
• DELL
• NETGEAR

Out of Band Management

• HP ILO
• DELL DRAC
• Intel VPRO

Servers

Web Services

• Apache
• NGINX
• IIS

Database Services

• MSSQL
• MYSQL/MARIADB

Back Office Applications

• SharePoint
• .NET apps on IIS
• Java apps on Apache/Tomcat

Internet Facing Remote Desktop

• Citrix
• Remote Desktop Services Web Services
• VMware View (VDI)

PC Devices

• Mainly Windows PCs
• Linux PCs in Development Departments
• Some MAC OSX

Mobile Devices

• IOS
• Android

Cloud Services

• Azure
• AWS
• Office 365
• Salesforce
• Service Now
• Various SMTP Mail Tools

Public Facing Web Services

• WordPress
• UMRACO

Reverse Proxies and Load Balancers

• F5 BIG IP
• KEMP
• Netscaler
• NGINX
• Imperva

Backup

• ArcSight
• Veeam
• Datto
• Acronis

SAN

• DELL EMC
• NETAPP
• HP

Hypervisors

• VMWare vSphere/ESXi
• Hyper-V/SCVMM
• Nutanix

Instant Messaging and Video Conference

• Teams
• Slack
• Zoom
• Webex

AV/EDR

• Defender
• Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
• Sentinel One
• Sophos
• McAfee
• WebRoot
• Crowdstrike
• CISCO AMP

Telephony

• MITEL
• AVIA

WAF / CDN

• Cloudflare
• Amazon Cloudfront
• Azure Front Door
• Akamai
• Imperva
• netscaler
• F5
• KEMP

Proxies

• Zedscaler
• Squid

Config Management

• SCCM/SYSTEMCENTER
• WSUS
• GPO
• Intune

Monitoring

• SolarWinds
• SCOM/Operations Manager
• PRTG

Logging

• SPLUNK
• Azure Seninel
• ARCSIGHT
• Event Viewer

Protective DNS

• NCSC PDNS
• CISCO Umbrella

WIFI

• HP Aruba
• CISCO Meraki
• Unifi Wifi

MDM

• Airwatch
• Mobile Iron
• Intune

Service Management

• SYSAID
• WhatsUpGold
• Manage Engine
• Service Now
• Remedy
• JIRA

Document Management

• File Servers
• SharePoint
• Confluence
• WIKI

Business Applications

• Sage
• Oracle
• SAP
• Microsoft Dynamics

CCTV

• HKVISION
• Dahua

FTP

• PureFTP
• ProFTPD
• Filezilla
• Solarwinds Serv-U

NAS Storage

• QNAP
• NetAppFiler
• Windows Storage Server

Summary

There we go, a long old list of “common stuff” I see in the networks I’ve been in. will this be the same as your experience? maybe, maybe not. But hopefully it will give people an idea of what is in the world from my perspective (100-10K+ staff orgs largely UK based/global)