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Applied Network Security Monitoring
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Applied Network Security Monitoring

by Chris Sanders, Jason Smith
November 2013
Beginner
496 pages
14h 23m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 4

Session Data

Abstract

Session data is the summary of the communication between two network devices. Also known as a conversation or a flow, this summary data is one of the most flexible and useful forms of NSM data. While session data doesn’t provide the level of detail found in full packet capture data, it does have some unique strengths that provide significant value to NSM analysts.

In this chapter we will discuss how flows are generated, methods for session data collection, and explore two of the more popular session data analysis solutions, SiLK and Argus. However, before going into detail about the differences between analysis solutions, it’s important to understand the differences between the types of flow data. This book will ...

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