As cybersecurity threats become more sophisticated, organizations need a way to quickly detect and stop an attack or track and analyze its after-effects for clues. One important tool available to ...

Do you love packet analysis as much as I do? If so, then you’ll probably remember the scene in the movie “The Matrix” where Neo is looking at the Matrix over one of the analysts’ shoulders and asks ...

The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this ...

As everyone know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are internet protocols which are used for communication through internet. The communication takes places ...

If you are InfoSec professional who commonly deals with intrusion detection and response or malware analysis, a new site called PacketTotal may make your life easier. PacketTotal allows you to upload ...

Many of us don’t give much thought to just what is traversing the corporate network. That is largely a job for the company’s system administrator. The thing of it is, though, the sysadmin quite often ...

In the tradition of other great network analysis tools like Bro and Sourcefire, Corelight gives security pros deep insight into data traffic on the systems they defend. I’ve long been a huge fan of ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Network World recently posted an ...

end-use productivity, network performance, application performance and security and compliance. There are three main approaches to network monitoring: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), flow ...