Have you guys used any of the freeware netflow collection tools listed on cisco's website? Any thoughts about which one I should try? I am just wanting to play around with netflow to get some ...

NetFlow is one of those tools that’s been around forever, but until the last few years it hasn’t received a lot of attention outside of service provider and large enterprise networks. Recently, there ...

Included in the download is the NetFlow Configurator Tool, which helps network managers configure NetFlow Version 5 via SNMP on supported Cisco devices. This tool can help network managers “establish ...

Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don't put anyone in jail. What is ...

With the advent of BYOD and the proliferation of mobile applications – it’s become ever important to have visibility into your wireless network using deep packet inspection. By classifying the data ...

This introductory post explains how one of Cisco’s security research groups established a network data collection capability for large amounts of network traffic. This capability was necessary to ...