The latest generation of network devices are pretty powerful and open. This means that such devices ship with a Linux-based distribution such as OpenWRT or UniFI OS. In these devices it is possible to install third party software as the CPU is pretty powerful, there is some storage and memory available for running additional applications. […]
Using ntop tools on VyOS
VyOS is a popular open-source router and firewall platform based on Linux, and some of our users asked us to support it natively. This post explains you how to achieve that in a few simple steps. Prerequisites As VyOS is based on Debian Linux, the easiest solution is to install precompiled Debian packages or compile […]
You’re Invited to the ntop MiniConference 2020: November 24th, December 3rd and 10th
This year due to the pandemic, we had to cancel our scheduled community event. Considered that we have introduced many new features in our tools we would like to invite you to an online mini-conference divided in three distinct events. The first event is a general even where we briefly summarise what we have done […]
Howto Write a Telegram Alert Endpoint for ntopng
Telegram is a popular messaging application that many people use daily to do instant messaging and receive notifications. As of ntopng 4.2, it is now possible to deliver alerts to external entities including Slack, email and Discord. This post will show you how the Telegram alert endpoint has been developed so that readers can learn […]
Introducing nProbe 9.2: Collection Pass-Through and Reforge, OpenWRT support, Flexible JSON-export
This is to announce the release of nProbe 9.2. The main new features of this release are focused on flow collection speed and flexibility in particular for modern JSON-based flow consumers. This is to enable applications relying on nProbe, e.g. ntopng, to scale up when collecting flows: The new –collector-passthrough option allows the flow cache […]
Security-Centric Traffic Analysis
Days ago we have given a short speak about cybersecurity at an Italian meetup. These are the presentation slides (English) where you can read more about the steps we have taken to make our tools more cybersecurity-oriented. Below you can also find the video that is only for Italian-speaking people (sorry about that). Enjoy!
Introducing nProbe Cento 1.12: Combining Visibility and Cybersecurity at 100 Gbit
This is to announce the released of cento 1.12 that is a maintenance release for ntop’s 100 Gbit probe. In this version we have integrated support of the latest nDPI features to combine processing speed with latest innovations in application detection an cybersecurity. Cento’s JSON output has been greatly enhanced and it includes all the […]
Released nDPI 3.4: increased detection speed, statistical analysis, fuzzing, cybersecurity
This is to announce the release of nDPI 3.4 that is a major step ahead with respect to 3.2: Detection speed has been greatly optimised Many new functions for statistical protocol analysis have been introduced. This is to expand nDPI into traffic analysis beyond simple flow-based analysis. Fuzzing and code analysis (credits to catenacyber and […]
A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Write a ntopng Plugin from Scratch
In ntopng you can write plugins to extend it with custom features. This short tutorial explains you how to do that step-by-step. Here we drive you through the creation of a plugin for generating alerts when an unexpected DNS server is observed: this is useful to spot hosts that have a custom DNS configured or […]
Using ElasticSearch to Store and Correlate Ntopng Alarms
With the introduction of ntopng endpoints and recipients, it is now possible to handle alerts in a flexible fashion by means of recipients. ntopng embeds a SQLite database for turn-key alert storage and reporting. However in large organizations with many alerts scalability of this solution is limited due to the limited number of records (16k) […]