Infrastructure Management

DDoS attacks are today’s common threat. In most cases, the attackers flood customer’s network from the outside. But what if you are a cloud provider and the DDoS attack doesn’t come from the outside? What if both the attacker and target are inside the same cloud? Can you protect your customer then? Check this post created by Konstantin Agouros, Solution Architect Security Technologies at Xantaro and see, how Flowmon DDoS Defender and OpenDayLight protect against DDoS attack in cloud environment.

We've just proudly released new major version of our flagship product – Flowmon 8.0. The new version comes with a significant change of architecture of flow data storage. Moreover, Flowmon 8.0 extends visibility in L3, L4, L7 and improves central dashboard, reporting capabilities and brings other handy features. New architecture of flow data storage dramatically increases number of flow sources per one collector appliance, enables new features and consequently brings new concept of profiles.

In the end of year 2015 we announced new collaboration with Cisco. By integrating Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS) with Cisco’s Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM), the companies will provide administrators with agility when provisioning quality of service and executing security policies across the entire network. Check out how Flowmon ADS and Cisco APIC-EM overcome cyber threats and secure network infrastructure.

A profile in context of Flowmon is a specific view on flow data stored in Flowmon Collector. It is defined by name, type, combination of profile filters and for a continuous type of the profile also size of allocated quota. Exceeding the quota causes an expiration of the oldest data, which is overwritten. A new feature allows to backup the profiles to defined external storage and restore them vice-versa whenever needed.