Do you know what’s really going on with your desktop or laptop? More importantly, what kind of network traffic is coming or going? Is everything on the up and up? After all, you haven’t installed any ...

Keeping an eye on your Mac’s network activity can save you from headaches. Whether it’s catching a rogue app gobbling bandwidth or ensuring your office Macs stay secure. After all, we don’t want to ...

In this era of hybrid infrastructure models, it can be complicated for network teams to get clarity on network performance. As network administrators grapple with how to track network activity as well ...

The internet started as an open and collaborative project, and security was a feature that was bolted on over time. Many of the internet's core protocols -- in particular, the domain name system and ...

Yesterday’s network traffic analysis tools leave you vulnerable to new security threats. Is it time for an upgrade? Let’s find out. Network traffic analysis (NTA) is the practice of monitoring and ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

Flow monitoring tools are useful for tracking traffic patterns, planning capacity, and spotting threats. But many off-the-shelf solutions come with steep licensing costs and hardware demands, ...

In this series of articles, I walked you through how I set up ntopng to monitor my home LAN. I used ntopng because it is a well-respected, powerful, open-source network monitoring tool that has a free ...