Network traffic monitoring is one of the most crucial tasks for any IT professional or sysadmin. Whether you’re troubleshooting performance issues, hunting for security vulnerabilities, or optimizing bandwidth usage, understanding how to effectively monitor network traffic can be the difference between a healthy network infrastructure and costly outages.

Monitoring network devices is a must-have for network admins, but they need to do it securely. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has helped millions of admins collect information and monitor networks over the past several decades. SNMP has had security improvements over the years, and that has resulted in three versions, v1, v2c, and v3, but the first two send information unencrypted.

Dale Hobbs // One thing that I almost always find when performing an internal network penetration test is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) configured with default community strings. Simple Network […]

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