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.

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Michael Patterson
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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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I thought I’d post about our new Citrix AppFlow reporting on the NetScaler IPFIX export. When we first started working with AppFlow I was naturally curious if it was an IPFIX or NetFlow technology.  We quickly learned that it is 100% compliant with the emerging IPFIX reporting standard so don’t go looking for NetScaler NetFlow.  This new export is a great addition to your network monitoring efforts.

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Over 100 SonicWALL field people have been brought up to speed on the IPFIX capabilities of their next generation firewall.  This includes training on configuring SonicWALL IPFIX and NetFlow.

“As a Sonicwall system engineer, I’d have to say the level of support and rich reporting Scrutinizer provides to SonicWALL customers is phenomenal. So far, Scrutinizer is the only product on the market to report on all the unique template data we export via IPFIX. For example, Sonicwall is able to provide insight to actual users, applications (not just port based ones), urls, IPS events, and tons more via IPFIX. This functionality really helps network admins with regards to troubleshooting, reporting, and capacity planning. Further, Scrutinizer provides additional situational awareness of securtiy and network events with the Flow Analytics module.” Rob Andrews – SonicWALL Systems Engineer.

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Just announced, Barracuda IPFIX support is now available on their firewall. We are in the process of checking out this new export to see if we need to add templates to our IPFIX reporting engine. Read more »

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In this webcast “The Future of Advanced NetFlow: New Elements, End-To-End Visibility and Network Security Threats,” Michael Patterson the co-founder of Plixer will cover how the latest exports and elements from Cisco, SonicWALL, Palo Alto Networks and others. The session covers leveraging NetFlow and IPFIX data to detect network threats, improve cloud-based services and reclaim bandwidth consumed by mobile devices on the network. See the plixer study press release for complete details.

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NetFlow v5 gave us great insight into network traffic, then NetFlow v9 gave us more, then Flexible NetFlow was more, well, flexible, and, now I ask, “How does IPFIX vs NetFlow compare?”

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The Sonicwall NetFlow Analyzer supports not only most industry standard IP flow protocols such as sFlow, jFlow, NetFlow, Flexible Netflow, and IPFIX, but it also specializes in sonicOS NetFlow reporting. It is, in my opinion, the best way to get the most out of SonicOS NetFlow.

Besides the traditional flow octets delta count, source and destination ports and source and destination IP addresses; SonicWALL brings more to the table. SonicWALL NetFlow support was introduced in SonicOS 5.8. Some benefits include network planning and monitoring, application and user monitoring, security analysis and more. Read more »

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Do you need an Enterasys NetFlow Collector?

Well, if you have Enterasys S-Series switches exporting Hi-Fidelity NetFlow, adding advanced NetFlow analysis to your network management toolset increases the value of that investment.

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Joanne Ghidoni
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It is nice to see calls on Juniper IPFIX support start to roll in. The other day I had a customer call in who was seeing unexpected DSCP values in our netflow network traffic analyzer, many of them were “23456”. This raised the question whether somehow the traffic analysis tool was not deciphering AS numbers correctly or whether it was a Juniper IPFIX problem.

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