ntop users as familiar with concepts such as flow risk and cyberscore. This week we have presented a conference paper [slides] at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience where we describe in detail what is cyberscore, how … Continue reading
Introduced RHEL/RockyLinux 9 support (and new GPG Package Signing Keys)
This is to announce the availability of ntop packages for RedHat EL9 / RockyLinux 9 at packages.ntop.org. This has forced us to change many things in the way we build packages due to the deprecation of the SHA-1 algorithm. Because … Continue reading
Welcome to ntopng 5.4: Enhanced Traffic Analysis and Cybersecurity
The previous stable release introduced a new persistency layer based on ClickHouse, paving the way for a more flexible yet fast historical data analysis, with its ability to store billion of records (alerts and flows) with limited disk space and very … Continue reading
Welcome to nProbe 10: Agent-mode, Timeseries, AWS/Google Cloud, Custom Flow Collection
nProbe 1.0 was introduced in 2002. After 20 years we are glad to introduce nProbe 10 that introduces several new features and improvements: Agent mode for process monitoring on Linux (eBPF) and Windows Implemented timeseries support for nProbe self-monitoring and … Continue reading
Introducing nDPI 4.4: Many New Protocols, Improvements and Cybersecurity Features
This is to introduce nDPI 4.4 that includes the development activities of the last six months. As with previous releases we are improving protocol support, automatic testing to harden the code for critical environments, and introducing new cybersecurity features for … Continue reading
HowTo Visualise ntopng Alerts in Kibana
ntopng can export both flows and alerts in Elastic according to the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) format. You can dump flows (not alerts) in Elastic starting ntopng with -F “es;<mapping type>;<idx name>;<es URL>;<http auth>”. For instance you can do ntopng … Continue reading
Introducing PF_RING 8.2: New Mellanox Support
This is to announce a new PF_RING release 8.2! This new stable version adds support for a new family of ASIC-based adapters from Mellanox/NVIDIA, including ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-6 (please check the User’s Guide for the exact list of supported firmwares). This new driver/adapter … Continue reading
HowTo Use nProbe To Create Traffic Timeseries in InfluxDB
One of the latest additions in nProbe, is the ability to create network traffic timeseries that will be stored in the popular InfluxDB database. This features allows nProbe users to create timeseries that can be depicted and integrated in Grafana … Continue reading
ntopConf2022: News, Announcements and Future Plans
Last week the ntopConf 2022 was held in presence in Milan at Bocconi University and about 100 people attended it. Presentation material including slides and videos are available at the conference page so even if you have missed this event … Continue reading
How to Configure Flow Risk Exclusions in nDPI and ntopng
Flow risks are the mechanism nDPI implements for detecting issues in network traffic whose theoretical design is documented in this paper Using Deep Packet Inspection in CyberTraffic Analysis we have written last year. While we are reworking the definition of … Continue reading