For a long time, ntop mainly focused on passive traffic analysis. As cybersecurity is becoming a main concern for many organisation and individuals, we have boosted our tools by introducing facilities for spotting threats and blocking unsafe traffic. This month … Continue reading
Introducing nProbe IPS: 10 Gbit nDPI-based Traffic Policer and Shaper
This is to introduce a new nProbe feature that brings IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) support via nDPI for Linux and FreeBSD (including OPNsense and pfSense). As shown in the picture below, nProbe acts as a transparent bridge (with kernel offload) … Continue reading
Combining nDPI and Wireshark for Cybersecurity Traffic Analysis
At the upcoming Sharkfest Europe 2021 we’ll talk about using Wireshark in cybersecurity. Part of the talk will focus on nDPI and Wireshark integration. Since the last release nDPI features flow risk analysis, that is basically a numerical indication of … Continue reading
Detecting and Analysing Qakbot Traffic Using ntopng
In this post Martin shows how he has used ntopng to detect Qakbot trojan. Many thanks for this contribution. Introduction I am using ntopng for network monitoring quite some time now and I was curios to see, what ntopng would … Continue reading
Best Practices for High Speed Flow Collection
Most people use nProbe and ntopng to collect flows using an architecture similar to the one below where nprobe and ntopng are started as follows: nprobe -3 <collector port> -i none -n none —zmq “tcp://*:1234” –zmq-encryption-key <pub key> ntopng -i … Continue reading
What is Score, and How It can Drive You Towards Network Issues
Telemetry protocols such as sFlow/NetFlow, SNMP or packet-based traffic analysis are the source of data for network traffic monitoring. For a long time visibility was the main issue and people were attracted by new tools such as Grafana that allowed … Continue reading
How To Monitor Traffic Behind a Firewall (During and Post Pandemic)
Due to pandemic, many people are now working in a delocalised world: some work from home, others from the office. To make things even more complicated, in the past remote workers used to connect to the company network via a … Continue reading
FOSDEM 2021 – Retrospective
FOSDEM 2021 has been an awesome event. For the first time in its history, the event was fully virtual with multiple parallel live streams. According to the infrastructure statistics, it had about 8,000 visitors of which about 5,000 were watching … Continue reading
Join FOSDEM 2021 ntop sessions, Sat-Sun Feb 6-7th (online)
We are proud to announce that a couple of talks have been accepted at FOSDEM 2021, one of the most important FOSS conferences in the world that this yar will take place online due to the pandemic. In the Network … Continue reading
Bringing Network Visibility, Cybersecurity and Encrypted Traffic Analysis to OPNsense, pfSense and FreeBSD
This is to announce the immediate availability of both ntopng and nProbe for OPNsense, pfSense and FreeBSD, directly supported by ntop, with nightly builds and all the features present on all other supported platforms such as Linux, Windows and MacOS. … Continue reading