Michael Patterson : Advanced NetFlow Traffic Analysis
Michael Patterson
Founder and Product manager for Plixer's Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer as well as Flow Analytics.

July 2017

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What is Network Traffic Analytics

July 11, 2017

Traffic Analytics as it applies to the network and security is meant to help IT professionals who need to forensically investigate massive amounts of mostly internally generated logs and flows. Because threat prevention has largely failed in the industry with the gap continuing to widen, network and security analysts are forced to react to events on the network. This means wait for something to occur and then investigate:

  • when it happened
  • what it did once it was inside
  • who else was involved
  • what data was compromised

When answering the above, Network Traffic Analytics (NTA) or sometimes called Security Analytics are the umbrella terms that apply. Ultimately, the goal of NTA to improve security posture, reduce risk and gain deeper insight into each and every event.

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