Plixer—a fresh perspective
2019 marks Plixer’s 20th year providing network analytics solutions to IT teams all over the world. Today we’re launching a new identity....
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyberattacks with Network Traffic Analytics
According to a recent New York Times’ article, there have been cyberattacks on critical infrastructure Saudia Arabia recently. While these attacks were not elaborated...
Correlating NetFlow with RADIUS Usernames
Correlating NetFlow with RADIUS Usernames to improve context security awareness is something we have done for several vendors including Cisco ISE, Microsoft Network Policy...
The Danger of Google’s Massive Harvesting
It’s pretty safe to say that most users are well aware that companies like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and hundreds of others are harvesting data...
UDP Packet Forwarding
If your company has a couple of SIEMS or maybe more than one NetFlow collector, you could probably benefit from a UDP Packet Forwarding...
User Authentication Monitoring
Despite continued improvements in malware prevention, the success rate of infections still out paces the industries best detection methods. This is true even though...
DNS Unlocker Malware
Our malware detection team plays particularly close attention to DNS traffic because a lot of serious exfiltration occurs as the result of DNS abuse. ...
NetFlow Vs. Packet Capture
Until the introduction of flow technologies like NetFlow and the standard called IPFIX, companies relied largely on two technologies. The first was SNMP which...
Google Map Integration | GPS Coordinates
We were an early adopter of supporting Google map integration in our NetFlow collector system. Since then, we have had customers asked that we pull in...
Cisco IWAN Training
One of the biggest questions being asked of IT professionals is, “Are we using our bandwidth to its fullest potential”? Of course we have...