Cisco’s NetFlow is being tapped more and more by network managers to get more granular metrics on which applications are used most, on how to bill back services and on ways to better secure networks.

Considering the predominance of Cisco equipment in enterprise IT networks, you’d think NetFlow monitoring and management would have been a popular feature in network management products for years. But ...

Most businesses have a network run by network administrators and security staff. A company's network infrastructure contains all the hardware and software resources. Routers, wi-fi connections, ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...

Will Your Network Traffic Analysis Spot Today’s Threats? Your email has been sent Yesterday's network traffic analysis tools leave you vulnerable to new security ...

The increasing volume and sophistication of fake network traffic has raised the cybersecurity stakes, jeopardizing sales and marketing efforts and complicating defense and protection. The ability to ...

From nation-state actors to organized criminal networks, threat actors are constantly devising new techniques to compromise networks, steal sensitive data, and disrupt critical services. These attacks ...