Occasionally on the FastNetMon blog, we venture into the history of communications infrastructure and the engineering stories that helped shape the Internet we know today. This time, it’s the...
FastNetMon Blog: DDoS News & Network Security Insights
FastNetMon Blog brings you the latest DDoS news, expert analysis, and technical insights on DDoS attacks and network security. As the leading source for DDoS-related content, we cover new threats, attack trends, and protection strategies. Our articles are written for network engineers, security teams, and tech professionals who want to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Follow us for updates, how-to guides, and research from the front lines of DDoS defence.
Introducing sFlowgen: Lightweight sFlow Traffic Generator
Testing DDoS mitigation can be surprisingly difficult. You may want to see how your monitoring system reacts to a 10 or 15 Gbps attack, but generating that much real traffic requires suitable...
Simulating DDoS Attacks at 100GbE Line Rate with TRex
This post is a repost of a technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy , shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic...
Learning TRex: Generating 100GbE Line-Rate Traffic on a Mellanox ConnectX-5
This post is a repost of a technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy , shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic...
Action Required: Upgrade to FastNetMon Advanced v2.0.383
IMPORTANT: Action is required for all customers using online licensing. We have released FastNetMon Advanced v2.0.383 as part of a CA certificate rotation for our online licensing infrastructure....
FastNetMon Community is Now Available on the Ubuntu Snap Store
We're pleased to announce that FastNetMon Community is now available as an official package on the Ubuntu Snap Store. FastNetMon Community is a high-performance DDoS detection sensor that monitors...
Learning VPP: Inside bihash, the Lock-Free Hash Table
This post is a repost of a technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy , shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic...
Learning Mellanox ConnectX-5: CQE Compression Tuning
This post is a repost of technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy , shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic...
FastNetMon Now Supports HTTP and HTTPS Proxies
Many enterprise and service provider networks tightly control outbound Internet access. Whether you're deploying FastNetMon in a secure data centre, a regulated environment, or behind a corporate...
New IoT Botnet Reveals How LLMs Are Changing Malware Development
Remember Script Kiddies? Well, it seems like we need to start talking about "Prompt Kiddies." Evidence that large language models are making their way into malware development has emerged from the...