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Friday, August 28, 2009

Free Plixer tool supports Netflow on ASA; Cisco patches two DoS holes in UCM

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Plixer offers free tool that brings Netflow analysis to Cisco ASA firewall

Brad Rees writes, "Due to the untraditional export of NetFlow from the Cisco ASA firewall, network traffic analysis vendors to date have shied away from figuring out this enigma. Nonetheless, network traffic analysis vendor Plixer International decided to tackle it and announced this week support for NetFlow exported from the ASA in Plixer's latest traffic analysis software release, Scrutinizer v7. Naturally, there's a catch. Its free." Read full story

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Cisco downplays security hole in its WLAN wares
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Cisco's commercial business council cochair bolts
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Lawyers join restroom janitors on Cisco's cost-cutting list
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