Detecting Worms and Malware with NetFlow: Network Threat Detection

Posted in detect network threats, detecting malware, Flow Analytics, NetFlow Security, network behavior analysis on August 1st, 2012 by James
Detecting Worms and Malware with NetFlow: Network Threat Detection

Since 2005, Plixer and Cisco have been touting NetFlow (not Net Flow) as an IT Security and threat detection solution. Cisco calls NetFlow the “primary network anomaly-detection technology (pp4) and that “NetFlow allows the user to identify anomalies by producing detailed accounting of traffic flows”.  We are not the only ones with this belief. Even Symantec calls NetFlow a “valuable enhancement” to IDS (intrusion detection) and IPS (intrusion prevention). Read more »

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