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Introducing ntopng Policy Menu

In the past months we have extended our behaviour analysis introducing new features such as the ACL or device policies. For this reason we have rearranged the menus and create a new Policy menu (you can read more here) that contains all the configurations used by ntopng to trigger alerts. Sue to this, some pages have been moved and changed location. Below you can find the list of the moved pages and how to access them now: Server Ports (Previously, Server Ports Analysis): Previously in the Host entry, moved to …
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Using ClickHouse Cloud with ntopng

We are happy to announce that from the latest ntopng dev (6.1) version, ntopng supports exporting data (flows & alerts) to ClickHouse Cloud. Below you can find a step-by-step guide. Quick Start First of all let’s start by creating our account and service on the ClickHouse Cloud (you can find the official guide here); remember to save the ClickHouse username and password used for accessing your database. After that we have to jump to the ‘Connect’ section: Then, we have to select MySQL, turn on “Enable the MySQL protocol” and …
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Best Practices to Secure ntopng

After a fresh install, ntopng will run using a default, basic configuration. Such configuration is meant to provide an up-and-running ntopng but does not try to secure it. Therefore, the default configuration should only be used for testing purposes in non-production environments. Several things are required to secure ntopng and make it enterprise-proof. Those things include, but are not limited to, enabling an encrypted web access, restricting the web server access, and protecting the Redis server used by ntopng as a cache. Here is the list of things required to …