Handbook HOW TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR NETWORK Part 2 Inside the Data: Full Packet Capture and Analysis by Pavel Minarik, Chief Technology Officer at Flowmon Networks www.flowmon.comFull Packet Capture and Analysis www.flowmon.com 2 When it comes to network traffic monitoring, troubleshooting or threat detection, there are two options at our disposal. The first one is the NetFlow-based traffic monitoring we described last time. The other is called full packet capture and analysis that provides complete network visibility. First of all, let’s remind ourselves of the principle of flow-based (NetFlow, IPFIX) network traffic monitoring. Flow data represents an abstraction of the network traffic itself. Flow data statistics are created as an aggregation of the network traffic; us

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