HowTo Use nProbe To Create Traffic Timeseries in InfluxDB
One of the latest additions in nProbe, is the ability to create network traffic timeseries that will be stored in the popular InfluxDB database. This features allows nProbe users to create timeseries...
View ArticleIntroducing PF_RING 8.2: New Mellanox Support
This is to announce a new PF_RING release 8.2! This new stable version adds support for a new family of ASIC-based adapters from Mellanox/NVIDIA, including ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-6 (please check the...
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HowTo Visualise ntopng Alerts in Kibana
ntopng can export both flows and alerts in Elastic according to the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) format. You can dump flows (not alerts) in Elastic starting ntopng with -F “es;<mapping...
View ArticleIntroducing nDPI 4.4: Many New Protocols, Improvements and Cybersecurity...
This is to introduce nDPI 4.4 that includes the development activities of the last six months. As with previous releases we are improving protocol support, automatic testing to harden the code for...
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Welcome to nProbe 10: Agent-mode, Timeseries, AWS/Google Cloud, Custom Flow...
nProbe 1.0 was introduced in 2002. After 20 years we are glad to introduce nProbe 10 that introduces several new features and improvements: Agent mode for process monitoring on Linux (eBPF) and Windows...
View ArticleWelcome to ntopng 5.4: Enhanced Traffic Analysis and Cybersecurity
The previous stable release introduced a new persistency layer based on ClickHouse, paving the way for a more flexible yet fast historical data analysis, with its ability to store billion of records...
View ArticleIntroduced RHEL/RockyLinux 9 support (and new GPG Package Signing Keys)
This is to announce the availability of ntop packages for RedHat EL9 / RockyLinux 9 at packages.ntop.org. This has forced us to change many things in the way we build packages due to the deprecation of...
View ArticleWhat is CyberScore and How it Works: a Technical Overview
ntop users as familiar with concepts such as flow risk and cyberscore. This week we have presented a conference paper [slides] at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience...
View ArticleHowTo Select the Right Network Adapter for Traffic Monitoring and Cybersecurity
Since the introduction of PF_RING ZC drivers for Mellanox/NVIDIA, and the new family of Intel E810 adapters, the activity of selecting the best, cost-effective adapter, based on the use case and the...
View ArticleHowTo Implement Flow Relay, Replication and Fanout with nProbe
Sometimes flow (sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX) collection can become a complicated activity when you need to: Collect, on your private network, flows originated by devices with a public IP. Migrate your...
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Introducing nTap: a Virtual Tap for Monitoring and Cybersecurity (including...
This is to announce a new product named nTap that implements a software tap, to be used in physical and virtual/containerised environments. Using nTap with ntop applications nTap with Third Party...
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HowTo Use ntopng for Pcap Analysis
Many times traffic analysts receive pcap files containing some traffic to analyse. The usual steps for analysing the pcap file with ntopng have been for a long time: Save the pcap file to disk and...
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Traffic Monitoring and Enforcement for ISPs and Service Providers
Last week we have talked at ITNOG6 where we presented a report of the lessons learnt while monitoring ISP and service providers networks. This work is the result of one year of activities carried on...
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Using Blacklists to Catch Malware Communications Using ntopng
A category list is a control mechanism used to label traffic according to a category. In nDPI, the traffic classification engine on top of which ntop applications are built, there are various...
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Malware Traffic Analysis in ntopng
ntop users have started to use our tools for malware analysis as contrary to packet sniffers or text-based security tools, ntopng comes with a web interface that simplifies the analysis. For this...
View Articlentop Professional Training: November 2022
ntop tools are continuously evolving and getting extended in order to take into account new requirements. Every new release adds many new features that needs to be mastered. In addition to this, new...
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What’s New in ntopng: Alert Severities
Hello everybody ! We are going to use this new blog-post serie to explain ntopng new features and graphic changes; let we know your feedback! Today we are going to talk about Alert Severities. In...
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Howto use Kafka (instead of ZMQ) For Reliable Flow Collection and IPC
Historically, we have used ZMQ for interconnecting nProbe to ntopng, as this is a fast and simple messaging system. However one of they key advantage of ZMQ of being broker-less is sometime a problem....
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What’s New in ntopng: Host Traffic Analysis
Hello everybody! Welcome back to the weekly blog post of this serie used to update you with the latest ntopng features and graphical changes. Please let us know your feedback! Today we are going to...
View ArticleDeploying ntopng at Scale: Jessa Ziekenhuis
This is a report from one of our users from the field, who decided to use ntopng to monitor a large network. Many thanks to Bjorn for sharing this information with our community. Our network Jessa...
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