The current nProbe 8.0 release contains many changes with respect to the 7.x series. We have optimised the code, added the ability to collect non standard fields (e.g. Cisco AVC), improved Kafka export, and reworked many tiny details to make the tool a stable solution for all those looking for a flexible and versatile flow […]
Introducing ntopng 3.0
If you have enjoyed ntopng 2.x, we believe you will like 3.0 even more as we have worked for almost one year to this release. We have modified many things, improved security in ntopng (in the cybersecurity days this is the least we could do), added layer 2 visibility, improved metrics calculations, added alerts support […]
Say hello to nDPI 2.0 (with wireshark integration)
nDPI 2.0 is a major release that: Consolidates the API, in particular for guessing new protocols or notifying nDPI that for a given flow there are no more packets to dissect. Introduces nDPI support into Wireshark by means of a lua script and extcap plugin. Available via an extcap interface, the plugin sends Wireshark the […]
Webinar: Security Monitoring with 1:1 NetFlow and 100% Packet Capture
Latest news: Napatech has decided to reschedule the webinar. A new date will be announced when available. Thu May 23rd and 25th together with Napatech we have organised two webinars about monitoring network traffic using flow-based technologies. We will be talking about 100 Gbit network traffic monitoring. Flow-based monitoring including nProbe Cento. 100% packet capture […]
Detecting and Fighting Ransomware Using ntopng (yes including WannaCry)
These days many people are talking about ransomware and in particular of the problems created by WannaCry. Some ntop users contacted us asking if they could use our tools for detecting and stopping ransomware. While the best solution to these issues is to properly implement network security (that is a process, not a product in […]
Monitoring IoT and Fog Computing: Challenges and Solutions
Since last year we are designing a solution for monitoring IoT and Fog computing devices. This is becoming a hot argument since they are more and more used to create large Internet attacks and also because our privacy can be affected by this new computing trend. While we do not have a complete solution ready, we […]
Network Security Analysis Using ntopng
Most security-oriented traffic analysts rely on IDSs such as Bro or Suricata for network security. While we believe that they are good solutions, we have a different opinion on this subject. In fact we believe that it is possible to use network traffic monitoring tools like ntopng to spot many security issues that would make and […]
Capture, Filter, Extract Traffic using Wireshark and PF_RING
Last year we introduced our new nBPF library able to: 1. Convert a BPF filter to hardware rules for offloading traffic filtering to the network card, making it possible to analyse traffic at 100G. 2. Accelerate traffic extraction from an indexed dump set produced by n2disk, our traffic recording application able to produce multiple PCAP […]
Meet ntop on April 28th @ Microsoft Munich
This year we’ve accepted the invitation from Wuerth-Phoenix to be part of their Roadshows 2017 and talk about network and system monitoring. The first workshop will be in Munich, Germany on April 28th. All ntop users are invited to come and talk about our monitoring tools. ntop am 28. April bei Microsoft in München Wie […]
What Is a Microburst and How to Detect It?
It’s not uncommon to see network administrator struggling tracking down packet drop on network equipments at interface level, while having a low average link utilisation. At the end it often turns out to be due to a phenomenon (well) known as microburst. While forwarding data between network links, network equipments absorb spikes with buffers, when […]