Precise packet timestamping is a key feature for network traffic analysis and troubleshooting. Traditionally many people use FPGA-based NICs with precise timestamping (e.g. Napatech, Silicom) even though a good precision can be obtained with PTP-based NICs such as many Intel … Continue reading
Dec 3rd, ntop miniconf 2020 part II: ntopng
This is a reminder for the second part of our mini-conference 2020 scheduled for this Thursday, December 3rd 4 PM CET/10 AM EST. This time we’ll focus on the latest ntopng 4.2 features. We have the pleasure to host our … Continue reading
Using ntopng as network sensor for SecurityOnion (and integrated with Suricata)
SecurityOnion (SO) is a popular Linux distribution for threat hunting and security. It included ElasticSearch as backend for storing alerts as well as Kibana-based web interface. SO includes out of the box a few sensors such as Suricata that is … Continue reading
Embedding ntop: Nokia Beacon and Ubiquity UniFi Dream Machine
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Say Hello to ntopng 4.2: Flexible Alerting, Major Speedup, Scada, Cybersecurity
We are pleased to introduce ntopng 4.2 that introduces several new features and breakthroughs while consolidating the changes introduced with 4.0. The main goals of this release include Enhance and simplify how alerts are delivered to consumers Many internal components … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading