I’ve been playing with our joint Mobile IAM reporting solution that we have developed with our partner Enterasys Networks.  These new reports appear to be very helpful when trying to find out about all the BYOD devices on the network, who authenticated them (i.e. username) and any BYOD security  issues that may have appeared in the host reputation  alarm dashboard.

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The most advanced Flow technologies today come in the form of (FnF) Flexible NetFlow Reporting and IPFIX Reporting.  Some vendors have renamed these technologies to AppFlow, Cascade Flow, J-Flow and NetStream, however they are usually a near copy of either NetFlow or IPFIX.

List of Next Gen NetFlow / IPFIX Reporting Features

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BYOD Policies in schools and in the work place should include what is considered both acceptable use and misuse of resources.  Because many students and employees engage in personal activities on BYOD devices such as Facebook.com, twitter and scrabble, these applications and others are often active during work hours.  They not only distract people from doing their jobs, they can also consume considerable network bandwidth which could negatively impact business critical applications such as connectivity to the CRM or even VoIP.  If you think you are going to see a BYOD savings, you may want to think again.

 “Aberdeen Group found that a company with 1,000 mobile devices spends an extra $170,000 per year, on average, when they use a BYOD approach.”

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Most companies are taking the position that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is allowing businesses to gain more productivity from their work force. Because of this, Mobile Workers are on the rise and it is creating a new IT challenge.

“Certain bring-your-own-device strategies present certain security risks: the introduction of mobile malware onto a hospital network, for example,” said Lynne Dunbrack, IDC Health Insights program director.

 

 

Some hospitals embracing BYOD, are restricting BYOD devices to Internet access only. Why?

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Are you struggling to find a Flexible NetFlow reporting solution that provides details on Cisco MPLS-aware NetFlow or the NetFlow MPLS label details?

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Traditional NetFlow exports the IP Next Hop information which is used to provide the end-to-end visibility of flow paths.  The NetFlow BGP Next Hop
feature adds BGP next hop information to the data export.  This feature also allows service providers to track which service provider the traffic is going through which is useful if you have arrangements with several other service providers for fault-protected delivery of traffic.

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NetFlow VoIP Monitoring often requires keeping track of QoS or DSCP values. Here are a few statistics that should be gathered when performing network traffic monitoring with Flexible NetFlow.

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Good news, we now have a scalable high volume NetFlow solution. Our latest linux appliance is capturing over 100,000 flows per second, that’s 6 million flows per minute! This is a large enterprise or service provider NetFlow solution for customers that generate serious NetFlow volumes.

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On my way to the airport tomorrow headed for London and CiscoLive 2012 to show off Scrutinizer v9 and our new video monitoring (e.g. Webex) traffic reporting.  You will find updates on the plixer facebook wall. This new version brings several new NetFlow reports:

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Monitoring Cisco Telepresence with NetFlow or in this case Flexible NetFlow is a straight forward process if you have to important factors in place.

1. Configure the Cisco performance reporting. This gets the router to start monitoring Cisco Telepresence.  To do this, the configuration of the router must include certain commands.  Contact us for the command set.
2. Monitoring Telepresence requires a top notch Cisco Performance Reporting tool.

 

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