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Ziften ZFlow Reporting Support

After analyzing their impressive export, Ziften ZFlow reporting support or Ziften IPFIX support is now supported by our flow collection system. Per their announcement...

Exchange Monitoring Tool

My colleague Jake recently wrote about Disaster Recovery Monitoring, and about how our Incident Response System, using IPFIX/NetFlow is more helpful then tools that...

Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 3 of 3

Make sure you read Part 1 of Overview of DNS Protocol before reading this one or you can go back to part 2. At...

NetFlow Security Monitoring

NetFlow Security Monitoring When you hear NetFlow/IPFIX, what is your first thought? For most people, their first thought will be “NetFlow’s great for performance...

Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 2 of 3

This is part 2 of our 3 part series which provides an overview of the DNS protocol.  Below are a few other terms you may have...

Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 1 of 3

If you have ever wondered how the DNS works, this post was put together by three of us plixer dudes who wanted a DNS...

Baselining Network Traffic

What is baselining network traffic? Why worry about baselining network traffic and Is this used for network security? These are the questions I want...

Protection from Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that infects a computer and restricts access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock...

NetFlow Analyzer No Flows Received

When you log into your NetFlow Analyzer, it may be shocking to find one of your core devices is saying “no flows received”.  I’ve...

Username Reporting with Netflow

I have had a few customers ask about username reporting with Netflow within their incident response system. Collecting user activity and viewing reports filtered...