The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed on October 12, 1998 as a means to mitigate the effect torrent use was having on the music and film industries. In my opinion, the most famous use of this act was in the year 2000 when A&M Recordings, along with others, used this act to file …
In this blog I will go over Cisco ASA NetFlow reporting and how it has changed in V8.4.7+/9.1.4.1+. If you have a Cisco ASA on your network, and you’ve used it to monitor NetFlow, you may have noticed some strange results on some of your reports. I’m hoping this blog will shed some light on these issues …
Although the Cisco ASA NetFlow exports have had some problems in the past, Cisco was the first vendor to export flows from a firewall so a few issues out of the gate are almost expected. Despite a few enigmas, it was still great to have and certainly better than nothing. In order to optimize the …
This is a follow up to Michael Patterson’s blog last month regarding Cisco ASA v8.4(5) supports bidirectional NetFlow exports. Our IPFIX and NetFlow Analyzer is the only NetFlow solution that supports the new bidirectional flows exported by the Cisco ASA. This Cisco ASA update makes network traffic monitoring more accurate because the prior NetFlow export …
Cisco ASA v8.4(5) Supports Bidirectional NetFlow Read More »
In this blog I’ll show you how to use Cisco ASA NSEL (aka Cisco ASA NetFlow) reporting to monitor your Cisco ASA firewall ACLs. With the addition of our Cisco Advanced Reporting module you can run many useful NetFlow reports — Network Performance Monitoring (Medianet), Performance Routing, Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) — but today we’re …
How to run Cisco ASA ACL Reports: Netflow Security Event Logging Read More »
Join the Cisco ASA NSEL Webcast and learn about our new NetFlow NSEL (Network Secure Event Logging) reporting capabilities. This webcast will provide details on NSEL reporting as well as information on lowering the risk of C&C bots, Advanced Persistent Threats and other internet hosts with a poor IP host reputation. See several of over a …
We have beefed up our Cisco ASA NSEL Reporting using of course NetFlow. NSEL = NetFlow Secure Event logging and ASA = Adaptive Security Appliances. What is interesting about Cisco ASA NSEL NetFlow is that according to the documentation we have, the NetFlow exports kick out several different templates. The most popular of which seem to …