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Fortinet is one of the most used Next Gen Firewalls in the world. It is hard not to be immediately attracted to full integration of end-to-end security across the whole network infrastructure. This is conducted via modules, that are easily enabl...

CheckPoint is definitely one of the cybersecurity industry leaders, with product portfolio that spans from advance network threat prevention solutions to NGFW. On our favorites list is undoubtedly their new GAiA Operating System, which represents one...

Palo Alto Networks is one of the most famous cybersecurity companies, mainly known for their next generation firewall devices. Their Operating System, PAN-OS is renowned for its ease of use and numerous configuration options. One can configure e...

As you probably noticed, interest toward NetFlow has sharply risen in the previous years. This is due to the fact that its dataset provides much more detail and effective traffic analysis than simple SNMP monitoring. It is also lightweight and it does not require to store big data and intrude on people's privacy as in the case of Deep-Packet Inspection.

For this reason, NetFlow has expanded its application beyond networking and it is now used even by system and security admins.

 

pfSense is a free network firewall distribution, based on FreeBSD OS and includes numerous third party free software packages intended to expand firewall functionality. pfSense hardware can be installed on common hardware or in the cloud. This variet...

Mikrotik devices are feature-rich and wallet-lite and that makes them one of the most used devices in the Europe and the rest of the World. Numerous SOHO and SMB companies use them for great graphical interfaces (winbox) and their huge customization ...

Network traffic and network complexity have substantially increased by globalization, virtualization, widespread use of personal devices (BYOD), DDoS attacks and similar trends, bringing up new security issues. Traditional approaches to network monit...

When thinking about network traffic and security, we usually end up considering NetFlow Analyzers for analytics and monitoring. It allows us to plan our network and detect security issues fast and easy. But the raising concern is also our core need f...

As the problem of multicast flow analysis was addressed in our previous blog , we have distinguished two scenarios – input and output flow accounting configuration. Therefore, during the following demonstration, we will investigate how NetFlow multic...

​ With the rapid proliferation of video services, particularly video streaming, deployment of multicast services demands an appropriate monitoring to be in place in order to keep track of this traffic type. Adequate and comprehensive monitoring is pa...