Network Monitoring

Traffic analysis, flow monitoring, packet capture, and anomaly detection.

Overview

Network monitoring detects threats through traffic analysis.

Monitoring Types

Packet Analysis

# Capture packets
tcpdump -i eth0 -w capture.pcap

# Read capture
tcpdump -r capture.pcap -nn

# Filter by IP
tcpdump -r capture.pcap host 10.0.0.1

# Filter by port
tcpdump -r capture.pcap port 80

Wireshark Filters

# HTTP traffic
http.request.method == "POST"

# DNS queries
dns.qry.name == "malicious.com"

# Failed connections
tcp.flags.syn == 1 && tcp.flags.ack == 0

# Data exfiltration
frame.len > 10000 && ip.src == 10.0.0.1

Flow Analysis

# Enable NetFlow
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 ip flow ingress
 ip flow egress
 ip flow-export version 9
 ip flow-export destination 10.0.0.100 9996

Anomaly Detection

# Simple anomaly detection
import numpy as np

def detect_anomaly(baseline, current, threshold=2.0):
    mean = np.mean(baseline)
    std = np.std(baseline)
    z_score = (current - mean) / std
    return abs(z_score) > threshold

Network Diagram

Practice

Capture and analyze network traffic using Wireshark.