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.

It’s no secret that I have been waiting with bated breath for network management and security technologies to converge and deliver the nirvana of efficient, risk-free operations to IT managers for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don’t put anyone in jail. What is ...

I've been scouring around the Internet trying to find the a best practice for monitoring NetFlow a Cisco DMVPN router. I know how to setup NetFlow, my question is what interfaces I would need to ...

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 ...

Readers have told me that they like blog posts with technical tips and tricks. So I asked SolarWinds to write an article about making the most out of NetFlow. The following is a guest post written by ...