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Up to 14x Wireshark Performance Increase – Napatech Link™ Capture Software for Napatech SmartNIC
Solution Description Wireshark is a widely-used network protocol analyzer allowing users to see what is happening on their networks at a microscopic level. It is

Firewall Performance Testing with Xena VulcanBay
In this concrete test case we used a Xena VulcanBay with 2x 40 Gbps QSFP+ interfaces to test some next-generation firewalls regarding their performance. Specifically,

Application Risk Management
The adoption of DevOps and Agile has shortened and simplified the application development lifecycle. But with an increased focus on speed to market comes an

Napatech Smart FPGA NICs: 50% Data Reduction with Built-in Deduplication
The challengeMore than 50% copies Duplicate packets are a major burden for today’s network monitoring and security applications. In worst cases, more than 50% of

Ensuring Performance Resilience with Deduplication
Performance resilience is the ability to ensure the performance of your commercial or home-made appliance in any data center environment. In other words, to ensure

The Effect of Packet Loss on an IDS Deployment
At SuriCon 2019, Eric Leblond and Peter Manev – both of whom are key contributors in the Suricata community – presented important test results, emphasizing

Emotet Malware: Email Spoofer Awakening
According to IBM X-Force, the Emotet malware has recently been spreading in Germany and Japan, targeting companies in the area more and more aggressively. Emotet

Use Monitoring Resources more Effectively Thanks to Intelligent Load Balancing
How do I distribute my network traffic for analysisas effectively as possible using load balancing? Problem Often, analysis, monitoring and security systems have more than

Keeping Latencies in Check – Using Decentralized Measuring Points
It wasn’t that long ago that enterprises housed their critical business applications exclusively in their own networks of servers and client PCs. Monitoring and troubleshooting

Stay at the Cutting Edge Thanks to Packet Slicing
How to save monitoring resources with Packet Slicingand comply with legal requirement Problem Often the gap between the capacity of the recording analysis system on