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Released ntopng 6.4: More Insightful Than Ever

We’re excited to announce a new ntopng stable release 6.4, a feature-packed update! With a strong focus on assets visibility and QoE monitoring. This version introduces groundbreaking new dashboards, advanced reporting, better alerting, and a lot of improvements to keep your network monitoring efficient and insightful. Breakthroughs Asset Inventory & Digital Twin DashboardVisualize your infrastructure like never before. The new dashboard provides a clear inventory of network assets with their virtual representations. Infrastructure DashboardManage multi-region deployments with a bird’s-eye view of your infrastructure and performance across distributed environments. Autonomous Systems …
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Deploying nEdge with Multiple (Virtual) LANs (and WANs)

Exactly 3 years elapsed from the introduction of nEdge (ntopng Edge), and despite the fact we haven’t posted much about it in our blog, this tool continued to grow, many features have been added over time, and we see that every time new users have the chance to try it, they are amazed about the capabilities it provides. If it’s the first time you hear about nEdge, we suggest to read the introductory post which explains how nEdge enables Network administrators to enforce policies at Layer-7 on network users, the nEdge product page which is providing …
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Howto Identify and Block Telegram-based Botnets

Botnets are a popular way to run malware on a network using the command and control paradigm. Popular protocols used by botnets include IRC and HTTP. Most IDSs can detect bots as long as they can inspect the network traffic. This makes networks administrators blind when bots move to encrypted and cloud-based (i.e. that you cannot block with a simple IP-based ACL) protocols. The popular Telegram messaging system allows people to create a bot in minutes as shown in the code excerpt below.   bot = Bot(token) def run(): """ …
Features

How enable DPI-based Traffic Management in pfSense using nEdge

We have been receiving several inquiries from pfSense users who would love to complement the classical firewall-style pfSense features with the inline Layer-7-based traffic policing offered by nEdge. Being able place pfSense and nEdge side by side allows to overcome the common belief which sees the bad guys on the Internet and the good guys on the Local Area Network (LAN). Bad guys are on the Internet and this is true. Period. However, bad guys are also on the LAN, especially today in the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) era. Think to infected …
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How to Track and Fight Malware, Ransomware, Botnets… using ntopng

Malware blacklists are not something new to ntopng. ntopng (including ntopng Edge) has integrated the emerging threats blacklist https://rules.emergingthreats.net for a long time. The 3.6 stable release also introduced some webmining blacklists, which would flag online mining sites and generate alerts. Despite the new integrations, ntopng lacked the ability to inform the user about the lists currently in use and let them verify the update status of each list. For these reasons, we’ve decided to implement the Category Lists, which gives the uses full visibility and control on the lists …
Announce

Introducing Ubuntu 18 Support for ntopng Edge (nEdge)

After 6 months from the first nedge announcement, as a response to our customers feedback, nEdge now provides brand new features, like the ability to apply policies based on the device type, the RADIUS integration for captive portal users authentication, the ability to add static routes when running in router mode and the programmatic configuration of users and policies. Today, one of the most requested features is finally ready: the support for Ubuntu 18.04! Ubuntu 18.04 is the new LTS stable release of Ubuntu. It adopts a new environment for …
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Say hello to ntopng and nEdge 3.6: Timeseries with TimeShift and InfluxDB

ntopng 3.6 release is paving the way to metrics-based traffic analysis. We have finally put ntopng on top of a timeseries-independent layer that allowed us to currently RRD and InfluxDB and in the future other backends. This means that you can now also (you can for instance use ntopng as a flow exporter and as a Grafana data source) use ntopng as a time series datasource (see the timeseries API for further information) or you can analyse data through the ntop web interface that has been greatly enhanced. As you …
Announce

Introducing ntopng Edge (nEdge): Monitoring, Service Segmentation and Security for the Network Edge

The network edge, either wired or wireless, is becoming increasingly important as most things now happen there being the place where devices are deployed. Security-wise, central firewalls are too far from the edge, and thus devices can roam freely – and potentially create troubles – in LANs without ever hitting a security device. The consequence is that LANs are becoming increasingly insecure, and the cloud is complicating all of this as it provides in encrypted connections – that are not inspectable by monitoring and security applications – the perfect ingredients …