NetFlow Ninjas Blog

Lancope Gets Press About BYOD Visibility

2012-02-08T14:49:10+00:00

Read the following two articles about Lancope and network's newest trend BYOD!

Lancope’s LinkedIn NetFlow Ninjas Group Surpasses 1000 Members

2012-01-11T21:27:46+00:00

Last week Lancope's NetFlow Ninjas LinkedIn group surpassed 1000 members. The LinkedIn NetFlow Ninjas group consist of network architects, directors, engineers, analysts and security managers who focus on utilizing NetFlow to improve security and network performance. Members of the group discuss how to use NetFlow to detect and remedy incidents before any impact to network services or availability occurs; expedite incident resolution with detailed forensic data; identify policy violations; gain detailed visibility into/across the network and reduce IT spending.

LinkedIn is one of the most important social media sites on the web. They have over 101 million members, including executives and engineers from every Fortune 500 company. When you signup to Lancope's NetFlow Ninjas group you can participate in the most recent discussions of how NetFlow enables monitoring tools to collect NetFlow packets exported from enterprise routers and switches, generating network traffic reports that help understand the nature of the network traffic and bandwidth utilization.

It is clear that there is a surging momentum behind the adoption of NetFlow as the de-facto protocol for network monitoring and by joining the 'NetFlow Ninjas' LinkedIn group you may participate with some of the leading figures in this exciting technology explosion. Click here to join the LinkedIn NetFlow Ninjas.

DDoS Attacks Just For the Holiday Season

2011-11-23T16:47:43+00:00

Every year a larger percentage of holiday shoppers decide to avoid the traffic and check-out lines by simply ordering from the sanity of their home. Grab the iPad, find the couch and 60 minutes later the gifts are order, wrapped, cards included, and mailed out. Online sales last year exceeded $36 billion during the holiday shopping season, according to numbers released by MasterCard. Retailers anticipate this year's online sales to exceed last year's figures, with industry estimates of $1.2 billion in sales on Cyber Monday alone.

So, how does the world want to dampen my great holiday attitude now that I am done shopping for gifts? How about a new wave of scammers, cyber-criminals, and hackers just waiting to swoop in with a new breed of DDoS attacks created just for the holiday season. Worries about "denial-of-service outages are the name of the game for online retail organizations during the heavy holiday shopping season," Adam Powers, CTO of Lancope, told eWEEK. Adam continued the interview with some insights into legitimate oversubscription DoS scenarios. The critical back-story to this article is the necessity of organizations to check their infrastructure to make sure they can handle increased network traffic and capacity. With a flexible hosting environment (or cloud site), network monitoring strategy and proper security gateways these problems can be mitigated.

"The bottom line is that retailers and other blue-chip corporations need to improve their defensive posture against DDoS attacks, as criminals and hacktivists have significantly increased the frequency and sophistication of DDoS attacks they employ," said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer of Corero Network Security.

Here the full article published in eWeek: E-Commerce, Retail Websites Alert for DDoS Attacks this Holiday Season