The Loadmaster Network Telemetry feature makes it easier than ever to get key insights on your applications into your Flowmon deployment. By creating both cluster-wide and application specific channels you can quickly build NPM dashboards and topologies that surface essential performance and availability metrics broken down by application, client and server.

For the sake of security, performance and uptime, IT pros must find problems on the network immediately and fix them fast. Hmm. Sound like network detection and response (NDR)? It is.

Our development teams continue to improve Progress Flowmon. The latest update takes the core Flowmon product to version 12.2, while our industry-leading Anomaly Detection System (ADS) gets incremented to ADS 12.1.

The threat landscape that organizations faced in 2022 and continue to face in 2023 is large, complex, and continuously changing. Defense requires a multi-layered approach that delivers monitoring, detection, and response at many points within on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure and systems. A Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution is critical to a modern cybersecurity defense strategy.

When we talk about the business value of a tool or a system that at first glance may seem like a “nice to have” or a “helpful but not absolutely necessary” technology, it is a good idea to start any discussion on the merits of the tool by putting some things into perspective.

Back in 2021 we have introduced the integration between MISP, a community threat intelligence sharing platform and Flowmon ADS. The integration turns indicators of compromise shared through MISP to actionable intelligence. Flowmon ADS will automatically pick up on latest indicators of compromise using MISP API and leverage those indicators of compromise to detect adversary activities in the target network. The integration is available in Flowmon ADS 11.2 and newer versions.

Old network salts likely know all about network flows and the value of network flow monitoring. As former News Editor for Network World and Editor in Chief of Network Computing, network flows are part of my old stomping grounds. In fact, I remember when Cisco invented NetFlow in the late 1990’s to collect traffic data from its routers and switches so it could be analyzed by network pros.

There is no end to zero-day attacks. Lessen the pain by spotting them early. In recent days two zero-day vulnerabilities against Microsoft on-premises Exchange Servers have been publicized and exploited. The good news is that Exchange cloud users such as Microsoft 365 customers, need not worry as these exploits are only against the on-premises versions.

“Network behavior analysis (NBA) is a network monitoring program that ensures the security of a proprietary network. NBA helps in enhancing network safety by watching traffic and observing unusual activity and departures of a network operation,” explained Techopedia. “Network behavior analysis monitors the inside happenings of an active network by collecting data from many data points and devices to give a detailed offline analysis.

Here in this blog, we will talk about some of the emerging ransomware you should know about and how you can prevent such attacks.