Infrastructure Management

Almost every vendor, Flowmon included, claims its NPMD solution delivers automation, machine learning, context analytics and other modern features. So, it is easy for admins to handle networks today, right? Well, it is not and feedback I get from Level 3+ engineers of 50 thousand people bank proves that sometimes automation is not enough.

Flowmon Networks and F5 Networks have joint forces to protect Service Providers and their enterprises customers against DDoS attacks. The integration of Flowmon’s fast flow-based DDoS detection with F5 Networks’ out-of-band mitigation solution provides timely and effective protection for service providers and their customers.

Some of you may have seen our Flowmon Studio series. Over the years, we’ve become experts in network visibility and security. It appears that becoming experts in video shooting will take more than our current 12 episodes. Recording of an interview with APM expert with 17 years of experience and our latest member of the Flowmon UK team, Stuart Smith, went wrong. But such a small failure was never going to stop me from sharing Stuart’s priceless thoughts, at least the old way - in written form.

DDoS attacks are still growing threat to all businesses dependent on the connectivity. There are several approaches to protect against DDoS attacks, where the most cost efficient one is the out-of-path strategy to detect and mitigate the attacks. But how it fits SDN environments?