Detection Methods

Detection methods are the core of Flowmon ADS. They detect various potentially undesirable activities on the network and accumulate appropriate information (behavior profiles). Detection methods are predefined by the manufacturer who guarantees their development and expansion according to the current trends in the area of network services and security of computer networks in particular. Detection methods can be imagined as signatures for IDS systems (for example, SNORT). Unlike signatures, which represent particular strings that are searched in individual packets, detection methods contain specific behavior patterns of network devices. Flowmon ADS uses the principle of detection methods also for other tasks (for example, event reporting).