Using Genetic Algorithms for Network Intrusion Detection and Integration into nProbe

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Conference: OSCON 2010 Presentation Link: Ignite Track Presented by: Brian Lavender SNORT is popular Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) tool that currently uses a custom rule based system to identify attacks. This presentation emphasizes on writing the algorithm to write generate the rules through GA and the integration of them into nProbe, a similar network monitoring […]

Released ntop 4.0

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After a few years of work, this is to announce the availability of ntop 4.0. Major changes include: Partially rewritten ntop processing engine to address reliability and performance Several bugs and stability issues fixed Added better support for IPFIX and NetFlow v9, as well as ntop PEN (Private Enterprise Number) Added support for Cisco ASA […]

Creating 3D Maps using ntop

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Since some time ntop support geolocation. Now courtesy of Ronald W. Henderson it can also display mercator maps and natively integrate with tools such  as Google Earth. These ntop extensions are part of the  NST (Network Security Toolkit) toolkit. For more information please visit the NST Wiki page.