Most modern-day security threats use legitimate information to gain access to important sources of information, and once hackers find a hole in the network, the systems in it are further exploited. Network traffic analysis is the process of monitoring, capturing, and reporting traffic patterns to identify the nature of traffic, highlight possible security attacks, and find the root cause of bandwidth bottlenecks. Organizations need a network traffic analysis (NTA) tool that can track network traffic and let admins differentiate between normal and unusual behavior. In such cases, organizations need a solution that can monitor for hitches in connectivity and security threat indicators hiding in traffic.

With the need to keep up with the ever-growing bandwidth demands, monitoring each endpoint manually is practically impossible. Although major solutions can detect threats with predefined signatures, detecting newer attacks requires focusing on communications such as those from API or SaaS applications. With network endpoints interconnected, the performance and risk of handling these traffic types can also increase. Most corporate IT landscapes have a variety of traffic types involved, like cloud, web, and video.

Netflow monitoring tools