Webcasts
Cisco Wireless AVC - Traffic Visibility
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer and Jameson Blandford, Technical Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems
Overview
- The business value of Application Visibility and Control
- The different application types AVC can recognize and control
- How this new technology works and how it classifies Applications and modifies DSCP values
- How to configure these features in the actual graphical user interface
- Reporting on the data using Cisco Prime and Scrutinizer sFlow and NetFlow Analyzer
Quantifying the Value of Network Traffic Monitoring: ROI Case Studies by EMA
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer and Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, EMA
Overview
- WAN traffic monitoring requisites
- Reporting on Flow volumes, applications, top talkers
- Next Generation exports: NBAR, Medianets
- Threat Detection on Outbound connections
- End to End / Hop by Hop visibility of connections
Cisco ASA Internet Threat Detection
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer
Overview
- 3 ways the Cisco ASA was developed to protect a company
- How advanced attacks infiltrate 90% of companies
- Why most security solutions don’t detect advanced threats
- The global scale of the advanced threat problem
Cisco ASA v8.4(5) Reporting
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer
Overview
- The specific changes that v8.4(5) brings to the NetFlow export
- How to leverage the NSEL events (e.g. denied flows) in NetFlow reports
- Correlating NSEL with the syslogs exported by the ASA to uncover malware
- The impact of ACL changes on flow volumes
- Network Address Translation reports
- Determining what ACLs are denying flows and why
VMware ESX Traffic Monitoring and Threat Detection
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer
Overview
- Application performance baselines with latency and packet loss metrics
- Monitor cloud services and reporting on the users experiencing poor connection times
- The information available natively from the ESX core package
- Monitoring to ensure virtual applications/workloads are isolated from one another
- Securing multitenant virtual environments
- Tips for ESX server monitoring in vSwitch and Cisco Nexus 1000v environments
Cisco Performance Monitoring with Flexible NetFlow (FNF) Reporting
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer and Patricia Costa from Cisco Systems
Overview
- Unique attributes of next generation NetFlow and IPFIX solutions
- Unique reporting capabilities when mixing FNF technologies
- How performance routing can optimize connection times and priority traffic
- How to gain hop by hop visibility of a flow as it traverses the network
Secure BYOD and Monitor its Traffic for Abuse and Threats
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager of Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer and Ali Kafel, Director of Product Marketing at Enterasys
Overview
- BYOD capabilities and requirements that successful enterprises are applying today
- Bandwidth consumption by mobile device type (e.g. iPhone, Android, etc.) and per switch
- Number of mobile devices, operating systems and specific users connecting to the network
Cisco ASA NSEL Reporting: Protection from Internet Threats
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager at Plixer International and Matthew Jonkman, CEO at Emerging Threats
Overview
- Top usernames being denied network connections
- The events being violated the most and by whom
- The usernames of the IP addresses passing through the firewall
Cisco Performance Routing with NetFlow
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager at Plixer International and Pritam Shah, Manager of Software Development at Cisco Systems
Overview
- PfR reporting on active and passive monitors that are both in and out of policy for metrics such as jitter, latency and MOS (Mean Opinion Score).
- Drilling in on PfR metrics and running Cisco Performance Monitoring reports.
- The end-to-end prioritization of traffic into the best traffic class for preferential treatment as it passes through each switch and router along the path.
Network Threat Detection with NetFlow and IPFIX
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Presenter: Michael Patterson, Project Manager at Plixer International
Overview
- Why APTs are virtually undetectable when passing through most traditional security layers such as antivirus, firewalls and network behavior baseline systems.
- The types of data APTs are chasing after and why.
- What is IP Host Reputation Monitoring and vendors that offer the solution.
Cisco Performance Monitoring metrics meets Plixer's Scrutinizer
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Presenters: Michael Patterson, Project Manager at Plixer International & Patricia Costa, Project Manager at Cisco Systems
Overview
- Prioritization of traffic into the best traffic class for preferential treatment as it passes through each switch and router.
- Configuration of Performance Routing (PfR) to ensure the highest priority traffic (e.g. VoIP and Video) uses the best path or route to its intended destination.
- How to free up bandwidth by rerouting lower priority traffic such as Google searches.
Lighting Up Your Entire Network: Increasing Network Performance and Improving Employee Productivity Using Flow Based Analytics
Date: Thursday, March 8th, 11am PT (2PM ET)
Presenter: Jan Sijp, SonicWall's Director of Product Management & Michael Patterson, Product Manager of Scrutinizer
Overview
- Presenters discuss the SonicWall Scrutinizer multi-vendor, application traffic analytics visualization and reporting tool as well as its value for measuring and troubleshooting network performance and utilization
- In addition, attendees view Scrutinizer's unique ability to identify all network user activity (applications, web usage, etc.) on a SonicWall firewall.
The Future of Advanced NetFlow: New Elements, End-To-End Visibility and Network Security Threats
Date: March 7, 2012
Presenter: Michael Patterson, Product Manager of Scrutinizer
Highlights
- How the proliferation of smartphones and tablet devices on the corporate network has created the need to follow their network traffic patterns to preserve bandwidth for VoIP traffic and other business applications.
- Measuring the performance of cloud-based services to ensure corporations are receiving contracted service levels.
- Following a data path through the network to pin point where service degradation occurs and instantly restore Quality of Service (QoS) values.
NetFlow Uses: How to Detect and Isolate Network Problems
Date: December 7, 2011
Presenter: Michael Patterson, Product Manager of Scrutinizer
Highlights
- Why should I consider using NetFlow or IPFIX?
- How can my company gain insight into our existing infrastructure?
- What are my options when it comes to "Flow Technology"?
NetFlow Uses: Legal Rights & Monitoring Social Networking
Date: October 11 & 12, 2011
Presenter: Michael Patterson, Product Manager of Scrutinizer
Highlights
- Gain insight on the amount of traffic going to social networking sites from your network
- Learn employees' legal rights when monitoring their traffic
- Determine how to use Cisco NetFlow and IPFIX technologies to find out how much traffic is going to facebook.com, gmail.com, etc.
Cisco NetFlow-Lite: Enabling Traffic Monitoring at Data Center Access
Date: May 31, 2011
Presenters:
Ellie Chou: Product Manager for the Catalyst 4500, Cisco Systems
Luca Deri: Founder of ntop.org
Michael Patterson: Product Manager of Scrutinizer
Highlights
- Gain the visibility into data center server-server traffic & server-user traffic for capacity planning and traffic analysis
- Learn about new NetFlow-lite implementation on Cisco Catalyst 4948E: L2 & L3 traffic, IPv4 & IPv6, hardware-based monitoring, and a whole lot more all with standard IPFIX and NetFlow
- Integrate NetFlow-lite with NetFlow
- Design a scalable data center monitoring solution
Cisco Flexible NetFlow - Reporting on VoIP
Date: March 22 & 23, 2011
Presenter: Micheal Patterson, Scrutinizer Product Manager
Highlights
- What is a Cisco Medianet?
- How can I monitor VoIP with Flexible NetFlow?
- Reports on VoIP Jitter, Latency, Packetloss and more all with NetFlow.
- Reporting on Applications, Domains and URLs all with NetFlow / IPFIX.
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