Author: Matteo Biscosi

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What’s New in ntopng: Keep an Eye on Lateral Movements

Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about the Service Map. As you probably know, one of the most troublesome problems in a network, when it comes to security threats detection, is discovering Lateral Movements. Lateral Movements can be defined as network activities that an Attacker does when he gain access to a device in the victim’s Local Network, and starts …
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What’s New in ntopng: Host Traffic Analysis

Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about Host Traffic Analysis. When analyzing traffic generated by a host, one of the main metrics we are interested in protocol traffic. ntopng keeps many traffic counters for traffic a host generates/receives, including traffic per protocol (e.g. TCP), application protocol (e.g TLS), breed (e.g. Unsafe Traffic), etc. In order to enhance those information, we …
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What’s New in ntopng: Alert Severities

Hello everybody ! We are going to use this new blog-post serie to explain ntopng new features and graphic changes; let we know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about Alert Severities. In ntopng, Alert Severities, are really important because they are used to understand how severe a problem is. Unfortunately we noticed that there are too many alerts with high score and high severities, confusing ntopng users on which is a critical problem and which is not, independently from the network. For this reason we decided to …