There’s something of an open secret in the cybersecurity world: internet service providers quietly give away detailed information about which computer is communicating with another to private ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid tens of thousands of dollars on internet data, known as “netflow” data, collected in bulk by a private company, according to internal FBI documents obtained by ...

SolarWinds' Network Utilization and Bandwidth Monitoring Software's Speed and Detail Enhancements Give IT Pros Ability to Diagnose Network Traffic Issues and Bandwidth Spikes Quickly and Accurately ...

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.

Successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) triage and mitigation depend on two things: speed of detection and accuracy of detection. When users are considering a DDoS solution, I am often asked ...

Several years ago, NetFlow was arguably one of the most underutilized management assets relevant to network performance and security. It was generally available as a part of Cisco IOS software, but ...

NetFlow is one of those tools that’s been around forever, but until the last few years it hasn’t received a lot of attention outside of service provider and large enterprise networks. Recently, there ...

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 ...