ntop develops monitoring tools for IT and OT networks, whereas Endian is a leading Italian company that develops a Secure Digital Platform for OT networks. Both companies use and develop open source tools that can be a key value in OT networks where most tools are proprietary. This partnership allows both companies to complement each […]

This is to invite you to the next ntop community call that is scheduled for Thu July 18th, 15:00 CET, 9:00 AM EST. The topics we would like to discuss with our community include Planning for the next ntop Conference 2024/25: decide conference location, contents, format and details. Discuss about other potential community meeting (either […]

Not all the nProbe users know that they can use nProbe not just as a passive monitoring tool, but also for shaping and dropping netwok traffic based on DPI. Ryan Claridge has filled the gap by writing a great article that explains that in detail. Enjoy !  

Those who follow this blog probably read a few posts where we described how to build a 100 Gbit continuous packet recorder using n2disk and PF_RING, providing specs for recommended hardware and sample configurations (if you missed them, read part 1, part 2 and part 3). In those posts we recommended the use of FPGA-based adapters […]

It’s been 3 years since InfluxDB v.2 was released and until a couple of months ago we didn’t plan to add the support to the InfluxDB v.2 due to many reasons: migration from SQL to Flux query language, v2 performance not better than v1. The in the meantime InfluxData release InfluxDB v3 that is currently […]

In the next couple of weeks we’ll be active in meeting our user community at two events: As you know ntopng is natively integrated with CheckMK. CheckMK Conference that will take place on June 11-13 in Munich, Germany. The ntop team will organize a one-day workshop about ntopng and cybersecurity.  Thanks to our partner for […]

Prague, Czech Republic / Pisa, Italy, May 29, 2024 – ELLIO, a provider of real-time, highly accurate intelligence for filtering of unwanted network traffic and cybernoise, and ntop, a provider of open-source and commercial high-speed traffic monitoring applications, have announced a partnership to enhance visibility into malicious traffic originating from opportunistic scans and attacks within […]

Time is one of the main problems in cybersecurity. Detecting issues after they have happened can cost you money and resources to restore the system. Network traffic monitoring tools have as goal to show what is happening on a network.  Traditionally, monitoring protocols such as IPFIX/NetFlow export monitoring data periodically and often limit their analysis […]

As discussed in our spring webinar, it is now possible to use (in beta) cloud licenses with ntopng and nProbe. Contrary to standard licenses that are bound to a physical system (based on the systemId), cloud licenses are “floating” as the same license file can be used on multiple hosts, of course not simultaneously (i.e. […]

WeChat is a multi-purpose messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent in China. Our Chinese-speaking users requested for a long  time an integration of ntopng with it, and this is to announce it. By integrating ntopng alerts with WeChat, users can conveniently access network notifications within a platform they are already comfortable […]