While NetFlow data may traditionally be seen as a network infrastructure tool, smart security teams can get tons of benefits out of the collection of IP traffic statistics, too. "Security ...

Flow data is already generated by most network devices. There has always been sufficient justification to collect and look at flow data if only to get a picture of what your network is being used for.

In my last blog post I showed how you collect NetFlow records and format them suitable for visualization. The next step, after the data has been processed and prepared in a CSV format, is to pick a ...

For those who appreciate the healing power of music, new research could prove to be a magical security tool. By correlating traffic types from NetFlow logs with sounds of instruments, researchers at ...

Cisco’s NetFlow protocol generates such data by collecting information about IP traffic from devices on the network. NetFlow data can show applications, devices or end users behaving in such a way as ...

In January, network security tools startup Packet Analytics launched Net/FSE, or Network Forensic Search Engine. Net/FSE is the first commercial search engine for enterprise network data to focus on ...

Readers have told me that they like blog posts with technical tips and tricks. So I asked SolarWinds to write an article about making the most out of NetFlow. The following is a guest post written by ...