For network admins and network security professionals, one of the most important tools to learn to use is Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), a free and open source network analyzer/packet sniffer software ...

In addition to Bandwidth Monitoring and Traffic Analysis, Capsa Enterprise now has Filters and Views to not only alert of a CyberAttack, but also provide the ability to perform detailed packet ...

NetWitness thinks packet analysis is the best way to identify and troubleshoot potential security problems on computer systems. In fact, it's so convinced that the company is giving its own analyzer ...

Network General last week released an upgraded version of its Sniffer Portable network protocol analysis tool that the company says offers network managers more protocol decodes and packet-filtering ...

In the previous article, I discussed the installation of three open-source packages on a computer running Linux to capture useful network statistics. Using Linux is economical simply because it can ...

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