While NetFlow data may traditionally be seen as a network infrastructure tool, smart security teams can get tons of benefits out of the collection of IP traffic statistics, too. "Security ...

Several years ago, NetFlow was arguably one of the most underutilized management assets relevant to network performance and security. It was generally available as a part of Cisco IOS software, but ...

Successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) triage and mitigation depend on two things: speed of detection and accuracy of detection. When users are considering a DDoS solution, I am often asked ...

Enterprise Management Associates has been talking with NetFlow adopters and is coming out with a short report as part of a larger research report on application flow management. There are clear ...

Flow data is already generated by most network devices. There has always been sufficient justification to collect and look at flow data if only to get a picture of what your network is being used for.

Many of the models presented to PROC NETFLOW are enormous. They can be considered large by linear programming standards; problems with thousands of variables and constraints. When dealing with side ...

Leaders at the Tor Project call for calm after an academic paper spells out how funded hackers could use NetFlow data from Cisco routers to de-anonymize Tor users. Tor Project leaders are trying to ...

Constrained network models describe a wide variety of real-world applications ranging from production, inventory, and distribution problems to financial applications. These problems can be solved with ...