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Cisco ASA Cyber Threat Defense: Part 2

The Cisco ASA is a great tool for Cyber Threat Defense. In part one of this blog I described the 3 components of Cisco’s...

Plixer and Cisco Host Wireless AVC, Traffic Visibility Webcast

KENNEBUNK, ME — (Marketwired) — 04/11/13 — Plixer International, Inc., a leading provider of threat detection and network traffic monitoring solutions, today announced that CEO and Founder...

NetFlow V9 Overview: Cisco routers that support NetFlow

In Part 6 of our NetFlow V9 overview series, I will be talking about the Cisco routers that support NetFlow and the IOS releases that...

NetFlow Overview: NetFlow v9 Options Template

In Part 5 of the NetFlow v9 overview series, I will be talking about NetFlow v9 Options Templates, following up on Scott’s installment, part...

Implementing RFC 5610 and IPFIX Collectors

More and more flow exporting vendors are making the move to IPFIX and at Plixer, we feel that implementing RFC 5610 should be part...

Syslogd

Syslogd is often used to turn machine messages or syslogs into events for further processing. Ultimately, alarms are generated which can trigger some type...

Calculating NetFlow Volume

Often these days, we’re asked for a general rule of thumb or guidelines that can help with calculating NetFlow Volume.  How much disk space...

Zenoss NetFlow Zenpack : Includes Syslog Reporting

There is ZenPack that provides direct integration between Zenoss and our network traffic monitor that provides a NetFlow Plugin feature.   Our Zenoss NetFlow reporting tool...

NetFlow Overstating Utilization

Have you ever been monitoring network traffic and been suspicious of NetFlow overstating utilization?  The first thing to consider is the interface speed, is...