Infrastructure Management

In February last year, one of the leading internet service providers in Slovakia suffered from the largest DDoS attack in the history of the country. The total volume of the attack exceeded 400 Gbps. Servers of its customers were down for tens of minutes… and not only the targeted ones. The attack wasn’t identified by automated tools and few hours passed from its start to successful resolution of the situation and restoration of the services.

We in Flowmon Networks believe that merging flow and packet level visibility into one versatile solution is the technology that will help us to scale to future performance and capacity needs while preserving detailed information about network traffic.

New major version of our flagship product Flowmon was recently released. We are tirelessly following our vision to provide customers with a complete understanding of what is happening in their networks. In order to do that, we enrich flow data (information from network and transport layer) with information from application protocols (application layer). Let’s look at the new L7 protocols we have added to Flowmon 8 and dig little bit deeper into DHCP.

DDoS attacks are today’s common threat. In most cases, the attackers flood customer’s network from the outside. But what if you are a cloud provider and the DDoS attack doesn’t come from the outside? What if both the attacker and target are inside the same cloud? Can you protect your customer then? Check this post created by Konstantin Agouros, Solution Architect Security Technologies at Xantaro and see, how Flowmon DDoS Defender and OpenDayLight protect against DDoS attack in cloud environment.