Posts by Austin Whisnant

Network Profiling Using Flow
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Austin Whisnant
Knowing what assets are on a network, particularly which assets are visible to outsiders, is an important step in achieving network situational awareness. This awareness is particularly important for large, enterprise-class networks, such as those of telephone, mobile, and internet providers. These providers find it hard to track hosts, servers, data sets, and other vulnerable assets in the network....
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The Report "Network Profiling Using Flow" Released
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Austin Whisnant
Hi, this is Austin Whisnant of the CERT Network Situational Awareness Team (NetSA). After a long time in the making, NetSA has published an SEI technical report on how to inventory assets on a network using network flow data. Knowing what assets are on your network, especially those visible to outsiders, is an important step in gaining network situational awareness....
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