Unleash the Power of Your SIEM Investment with Optimized NetFlow Data

NetFlow Optimizer (NFO) enhances your SIEM/IT Ops environment by intelligently processing, enriching, and normalizing all your network data, including NetFlow, SNMP, and Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT). This integration provides the clear, actionable insights you need for enhanced security, performance, and operational intelligence, all within your existing SIEM or IT Ops dashboards and workflows.

The Challenge of Raw Flow Data

In today's high-traffic networks, raw NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX data can overwhelm SIEM or IT Ops, leading to:

• Excessive Storage Costs: Massive data volumes drive up licensing and infrastructure expenses.
• Slow Search Performance: Unprocessed data makes searches sluggish and resource-intensive.
• Limited Context: Raw IP addresses lack crucial context, making it difficult to identify users, applications, or threats.

How NFO Transforms Flow Data for SIEM or IT Ops

NFO solves these challenges by acting as a powerful pre-processor for your network flow data.

Volume Reduction

• Deduplication and Aggregation: Reduces redundant data, minimizing the volume of flows sent to SIEM or IT Ops by up to 90% in many scenarios.
• Top N Analysis: Focuses on the most significant traffic (e.g., top talkers, top applications), so you're not paying to store every trivial flow.

Contextual Enrichment

• Who, What, Where: NFO enriches flow data with vital context like User Identities, Application Names, VM Names, GeoIP, and Threat Intelligence Feeds.
• Actionable Insights: This enrichment transforms a "naked" IP address into a valuable security or performance event, which is essential for effective AI/ML-driven analysis in SIEM or IT Ops.

Seamless Integration

• Universal Compatibility: NFO delivers data in standard Syslog and JSON formats, making it instantly consumable by virtually all SIEM and IT Ops systems.
• Real-time Delivery: NFO delivers data in real-time, enabling immediate dashboard updates and alert triggers.

Key Benefits of NFO

Real-Time Network Resource Management

• Get immediate insight into bandwidth consumption and application usage.

Enhanced Network Visibility

• Uncover hidden network activities and understand traffic flows across your infrastructure, including cloud environments.

Strengthened Cybersecurity

• Detect anomalous behavior and potential threats with enriched data, improving your incident response.

Proactive Capacity Planning

• Make informed decisions about network scaling and upgrades based on historical and real-time data.

System Requirements

System

• Linux kernel 2.17+ (RHEL 7+, Rocky Linux 8+, etc.)
• Windows:    Windows Server 2016, 2019 (64-bit)

Sizing Guidance

• CPU:   4 physical cores, 16GB RAM, 20GB disk space