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Network Flow Analysis
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Network Flow Analysis

by Michael W. Lucas
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 18m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 5. REPORTING AND FOLLOW-UP ANALYSIS

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The ability to view exactly what traffic passed over your network is a powerful tool, but what can anyone do with this data in its entirety? After all, very few people can eyeball a list of 15,000 flows and identify the 10 most active hosts, identify the most commonly used ports, or even rank them by IP. Carefully choosing flow files to examine and then filtering their contents can reduce the number of flows you have to read, but this still leaves you with a huge data set to integrate, aggregate, and analyze even on a small network. You need a tool to aggregate flow data, sort it, and display the cumulative ...

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