Mike Patterson (Plixer CEO and Founder) and I have been long time colleagues in the arena of NetFlow analysis. Over the years we’ve both watched as NetFlow has matured and gained increasing popularity and I’ve always admired Mike and his team’s energy and steadfast devotion to NetFlow technology. Read more »
Back in March a bunch of us at Plixer and a few customers went snowmobiling in Greenville, Maine. This is the 3rd year in a row we have done this and I think this year’s trip was equally eventful. Events along the way included beautiful scenery, down trees across the trail that we had to lift up, evening dinner at local restaurants, wild life, a few guys getting stuck and just about anything else you might run into on a snowmobile trip. Below is video of the event.
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It’s not every day that we get to spend time with our colleagues from across the pond. So, when the opportunity presented itself to exhibit at the Cisco Live World of Solutions this year in London, we jumped at it. Not only would we get to interact with customers and prospects in a more international setting, but we would be able to see what other vendors are accomplishing with Cisco inspired technologies, like NetFlow.
While we pride ourselves on providing best in NetFlow solutions and being on the cutting edge of flow-based traffic monitoring, there is no doubt that every Cisco Live event provides its own eye opening and informative experience. So, needless to say, the decision to exhibit at the show was practically made for us.
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Has your company adopted a social media policy yet? Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are increasingly being considered threats for at least a couple big reasons: security risks and traffic risks.
Use of social medias at work can pose security risks to the company’s intellectual property through an employee’s personal communication habits. On occasion, attackers assume the identity of someone who hasn’t actually joined sites like facebook. Then the attacker determines who this person’s friends or schoolmates are and sends friend requests. Once befriended, the attacker has personal information of users and can make targeted attacks. Social engineering tactics like this can be very effective, especially when they get users to start sharing URLs leading to malicious sites or spoofs of actual businesses such as your local bank. In some countries, criminals are not banned from using sites like facebook when they are incarcerated, as The Washington Times recently reported.
Use of social medias at work can also pose network traffic problems for the company. Read more »
Plixer International, Inc., a leading global provider of network traffic monitoring and analysis tools, today announced that it has partnered with NTOP of Italy to launch Scrutinizer 7.7 with nProbe™ support for advanced flow-based monitoring to analyze client, server and application latency. If the flow involves HTTP, the URL information can also be exported. Read more »
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I don’t remember where we saw it, but there was a report that stated there were 102 unique vendors that released a NetFlow tool in 2008.
I don’t know how accurate that is, but I can definitely confirm that if you go to Google.com and search the key word NetFlow, you’re going to get a LONGGGGGGGG list.
So with a plethora of options and little time to evaluate, what does Scrutinizer offer that might make it worth…scrutinizing? (Sorry, couldn’t help it)
Here’s five compelling reasons to take a look at my product:
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I took a call the other day from a customer who asked, “How do I set up my router to send NetFlow to Scrutinizer?” This is a question that I get on a pretty regular basis, so I strapped on my router config hat and got ready to throw out the typical IP FLOW commands to get the flows going. But then I asked for the model of the router. “It’s a Cisco Nexus 7000,” the customer told me. I found that this device does not run the usual IOS that we have all come to know and love. It runs Cisco’s NX-OS. And Cisco’s NX-OS CLI is completely different.
Cisco NX-OS supports a flexible architecture that allows a user to collect different data for different applications per interface. It allows you to define an optimal flow record for a particular application by selecting the keys from a large collection of predefined fields, whereas the Cisco IOS Software supports one flow mask and export pair for the entire chassis.
Well it looks like our run of nice weather has ended here in Southern Maine. Saturday we had our first snow of the year. It was kind of a nice touch to be at a holiday party and have the snow falling outside. And then to wake up Sunday morning to find that the view outside your window is like that of a Currier and Ives winter print.
A couple of weeks ago I began a series of blogs that introduces you to the new Flow Analytic tools that are available with Plixer International’s latest NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool, Scrutinizer v7.3.
Today I will be introducing you to the third of the four new analytic tools now available with Scrutinizer v7.3. The Breach Attempt Violation looks for many small flows from one source to one destination. This can indicate things such as a “brute force” or “dictionary” attack.
Let me start by saying, I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. At our house, we fried two turkeys this year. It was the first time that we attempted this, and after reading all the warnings that came with the new fryer, I guess the fact that no one got hurt means that the holiday was a success.
Last week I began a series of blogs that introduce you to the new Flow Analytic tools that are available with Plixer International’s latest NetFlow and sFlow analysis tool, Scrutinizer v7.3.
With the release of Scrutinizer v7.2 last month we offered an upgrade/migration path for those customers running Scutinizer v6. I have had some customers ask, “Why should we upgrade” or “What will we gain from Scrutinizer v7 that we don’t have now?”
The updated release of Plixer’s network traffic analyzer last week made the answer to that question very clear.
