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khalil

Cisco ISR4300 IPFIX configuration

I recently helped a customer configure NetFlow on their ISR4300. I found that ISR43XX/44XX routers run IOS-XE, which only supports Flexible NetFlow (FNF). NetFlow...

dylan

Finding threats with host index

Imagine someone walks up to your desk and asks a very simple question: has this IP address been seen on our network? This could...

stephen

Network Detection and Response (NDR): What does it mean?

What is NDR? This blog will focus on the hottest 3-letter acronym of 2020 & 2021—NDR. Network Detection and Response solutions must address an...

ryans

NetFlow configuration: back to basics

As a conversation is observed by a NetFlow-capable device, metadata about that conversation such as source and destination addresses, source and destination port numbers,...

joanna

Five ways Plixer Scrutinizer helps education networks

Spring is among us: warmer weather, blooming flowers, and the need to start monitoring on-campus university and school networks again now that students are...

jeff

Integrate your network alarms with Microsoft Teams

2020 was a year of incredible change—changes that I believe will have a lasting impact, but also changes that require immense flexibility with traditional...

Why and how to export a violator list for DDoS mitigation

The need to detect and mitigate denial-of-service attacks is nothing new to network and security administrators. DoS attacks on enterprise networks have been occurring...

khalil

Custom script-based sensor for PRTG

Today I would like to explain how to create a custom script that sends specific information to PRTG as a sensor. Customers often ask...