Insight and ergonomy for the smart security analyst. Since the performance overhaul of the last release, we’ve concentrated our efforts to bring you additional refinements to the accuracy and information value in Flowmon ADS 11.1.
Get the most out of PRTG and Flowmon by bringing them under one GUI and allowing their complementary functionalities to work together. Until recently, infrastructure and network monitoring were seen as rivals, but today they are rather viewed as complementary technologies. Seek proof with Gartner - they used to be pitted against each other in the Magic Quadrant, but that has now been replaced by the Market Guide, which explains the differences and strong points but does not compare.
The year 2020 has seen various changes throughout the world but no change has seen more of an impact than the Corona-virus. During this epidemic, workers from all industries have moved from a traditional office-based role to WFH (Working From Home). It’s known as a business transforms it brings new risks associated with it. New and emerging technologies and the practices they involve require operational, policy and security measures to be implemented and evolved over time.
The new release of FortiOS 6.4 from 31 March 2020 brings a new and interesting feature of using webhooks for external API calls and enable automation stitches, which are easy to configure in FortiGate UI and allow you to run multiple actions. This led us to revise our integration script to utilize this functionality and allow administrators to easily configure different levels of mitigation with the webhooks.
The integration of Flowmon with an external user database such as Active Directory (AD) significantly simplifies access rights management both for small companies and enterprises. Although it has been available for some time, there are some helpful functions that may not be immediately obvious.