Caltech has been experimenting with ntopng on our network for slightly over a year now. We send a decent amount of traffic to ntopng, bursting up to 20Gbps, utilising Cento to read the wire and forward the data to ntopng … Continue reading
Historical Traffic Analysis at Scale: Using ClickHouse with ntopng
Last year we have announced the integration of ClickHouse, an open source high-speed database, with nProbe for high-speed flow collection and storage. Years before we have created nIndex, a columnar data indexing system that we have integrated in ntopng, but … Continue reading
HowTo Define nDPI Risk Exceptions for Networks and Domains
In the past couple of years we have added the concept of flow risk in nDPI that allows issues with flows to be detected (for instance expired TLS certificates). Unfortunately we need to silence some of these risk exceptions as … Continue reading
Short ntop Roadmap for 2022
Those who attended our latest 2021 webinar, had a feeling of what are ntop plans for this year. In summary we keep focusing on cybersecurity and visibility, planning to further enhance our existing tools as follows: nDPI: we plan to … Continue reading
A Gentle Introduction To Timeseries Similarity in nDPI (and ntopng)
Introduction Let’s start from the end. In your organisation you probably have thousand of timeseries of various nature: SNMP interfaces, hosts traffic, protocols etc. You would like to know what timeseries are similar as this is necessary for addressing many … Continue reading
ntop tools and Log4J Vulnerability
Recently we have received many inquiries about ntop tools being immune to the Log4J vulnerability. As you know at ntop we take code security seriously, hence we confirm that: In ntop we do not use Java or Log4J. ntop tools … Continue reading
ntop MiniConf Italia 2021: December 16, 16:00 CET
This year we have organised various online events for our international community. Considered that we have many Italian speaking users we have decided to organise an event in Italian that will take place December 16th. Conference Slides [English] Intro, nDPI, … Continue reading
nDPI-based Traffic Enforcement on OPNsense/pfSense/Linux using nProbe
nProbe IPS is an inline application able to both export traffic statistics to NetFlow/IPFIX collectors as well to ntopng, and enforce network traffic using nDPI, ntop’s Deep Packet Inspection framework. This blog post shows you how you can use a … Continue reading
Data Aggregation in ntopng: Host Pools vs Observation Points
ntopng allows users to aggregate data according to various criteria. In networking, IP addressing (network and mask/CIDR) and VLANs are typical solutions to the problem of aggregating homogeneous hosts (e.g. when hosts carry on similar tasks). Sometimes these aggregation facilities … Continue reading
n2n 3.0 is Here !
During the last year, long discussed ideas turned into implemented functionalities – adding remarkably to n2n’s rich feature set and each of them worthy of note. The level achieved made us think it justified even a major release. Welcome, n2n … Continue reading