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 ...

Adam is the author of the AdamtheAutomator.com blog, and works as a Microsoft systems administrator specializing in the Microsoft System Center suite and PowerShell automation. Microsoft Network ...

We tested Version 5.1 of WildPackets’ flagship product, the OmniPeek Enterprise with its distributed-data-capture-and-analysis core software called OmniEngine. The enterprise package — which can ...

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 ...

Knowledge of the structure of Internet Protocol (IP) packets is a fundamental part of understanding the Internet and how information moves from one point to another. The benefits of such knowledge ...

Network behavior analysis tools can help tune operations as well as improve security. Here are five tips for getting the job done. What’s happening on the enterprise network—or more to the point, what ...

At trade shows, I occasionally walk into a booth and discover a product I really want to understand and appreciate. I am especially interested in how the traffic it sends or receives affects the ...

Will Your Network Traffic Analysis Spot Today’s Threats? Your email has been sent Yesterday's network traffic analysis tools leave you vulnerable to new security ...

“[A] person of ordinary skill would have understood that in both the ‘713 patent and Sourcefire, the relevant data is located in the first packet of the message . . . [and] would have been ...