Maybe not all of you know that ntopng powers in some popular monitoring systems such as CheckMK and Centreon. The integration is made possible through the ntopng REST API (REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer) that allows developers to manipulate … Continue reading
OT, ICS, SCADA: IEC 60870-5-104 in ntopng
What is OT, ICS, SCADA ? Operational Technology (OT) refers to computing systems that are used to manage industrial operations or process operations, like water treatment, electrical power distribution or wrapping a chocolate in foil. ntopng supports some Industrial control … Continue reading
Introducing Smart Recording in n2disk: Combining Cybersecurity with Packet-to-Disk
In short Continuous network traffic recorders are applications (or appliances) that write network traffic on disk. In case of issues (e.g. security breach or network outage) they enable network and security analysts to go back in time and see how … Continue reading
Now available ntopng/nprobe ARM64 Docker Images
Supporting 64 bit ARM platforms is important because there is now a plethora of inexpensive boards based on this architecture. Thanks to the use of docker containers, several manufacturers allow their devices to take advantage of this technology to run … Continue reading
How To Analyse Asymmetric VLAN Traffic
A VLAN is a method for partitioning a layer two broadcast domain creating virtual networks of homogeneous systems hence promoting network segmentation. A ethernet port with no VLAN tag is called access port, whereas a switch port with VLAN-tagged packets … Continue reading
How Flow-Based Traffic Classification Works
Many ntop products such as ntopng, nProbe, and PF_RING FT just to name a few are based on network flows. However not all our users know in detail what is a network flow, and how it works in practice. This … Continue reading
Going Beyond 5-Tuple in Network Flow Analysis
Traditionally flow-based tools are based on the 5-tuple attributes (source and destination IP, source and destination port and the protocol field). Often they are complemented with additional attributes such as VLAN or Tunnel Id in order to avoid mixing in … Continue reading
Announcing ntop Professional Training: May 2023
ntop tools range from packet capture, traffic analysis and processing, and sometimes it is not easy to keep up on product updates as well master all the tools. This has been the driving force for organising ntop professional training: . … Continue reading
How to Keep your Infrastructure Healthy with ntopng
Almost 3 years ago we introduced Active Monitoring support in ntopng. This allows you to monitor the infrastructure and make sure that all systems are operational. In fact ntopng can continuously monitor hosts in your network by periodically running different active measurements … Continue reading
ntop Webinar: Introduction to ntopng 5.6 and the New nBox UI
This is to invite you to attend a webinar about ntopng 5.6. This webinar will walk you through the innovations introduced with ntopng 5.6 stable release that we introduced at the end of January. You can learn the new features … Continue reading