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Internet Threat Defense Solution: Part 1

Building organization confidence surrounding a company’s Internet threat defense effort means we can never let our guard down.  A potential internet security threat could...

Cisco ASA NetFlow Problems

Although the Cisco ASA NetFlow exports have had some problems in the past, Cisco was the first vendor to export flows from a firewall...

HP 9300 NetFlow Configuration

I found out the other day that the HP 9300 series Procurve routing switches (9304m, 9308m, and 9315m) support NetFlow in software release 07.6.04...

NetFlow V9 Overview: What’s in the NetFlow Packet Header?

Last week, Joanne started a series of blogs aimed at providing an overview of some NetFlow basics. I am going to continue this series...

What can be exported as a Flow: Use NetFlow v9 or IPFIX?

A month ago I was on a call with a hardware vendor that exports flows and he asked “What else should we be exporting...

NetFlow v9 Overview: NetFlow basics

Welcome to the first installment of our NetFlow v9 Overview, beginning (of course!) with NetFlow basics. What is NetFlow? A network flow is defined...

OpenFlow vs NetFlow

OpenFlow and NetFlow are two completely different concepts. OpenFlow controls how packets are forwarded through network switches, and Netflow collects IP traffic information. It’s easy...

Solera IPFIX Support: Network Security Appliance Exports Flows

Good news: Solera IPFIX support is available in our IPFIX reporting solution.  This is no surprise as Flow Analysis (NetFlow and IPFIX) continue to...

Exporting NetFlow or IPFIX

Is your engineering team trying to decide if you should be exporting NetFlow or IPFIX? This is the area of the technology where many...