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

From Cisco Subnet; Cisco's fastest router just got faster, than anyone's Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by ArcSight Successfully Detecting Network Threats Better understand your business and security risks by continuously knowing who is on your network, what data they are seeing, and which actions they are taking with that data. Get the real-time activity correlation and analysis and network threat detection you need. Read Now Spotlight Story 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." 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