You may need to monitor, or mirror, a port on an Ethernet switch to debug a data protocol, check for inappropriate use of your network or resolve a security breach. Using a monitor port on a network ...

The more devices you have on your network, the harder this gets ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

The installation of Glasswire is clean, and there is no fear of third-party programs being installed. After installation, you can choose to run Glasswire before you click Finish or you can run it ...

In the cybersecurity world, testing for the existence of exploitable vulnerabilities isn’t always an exact science. Checking for open ports (CIS Control 9 - Limitation and Control of Network Ports, ...

Microsoft is known for listening to feedback from its users. However, the requirement for a native Windows network speed monitor was neglected for a while and was even missing from the tech giant’s ...

Portmaster isn’t just a cross-platform network monitor — it’s also a very powerful security tool that can help to lock down your desktops and block things like ads, trackers and malware. I’ve been ...

Data packets travel to and from numbered network ports associated with particular IP addresses and endpoints, using the TCP or UDP transport layer protocols. All ports are potentially at risk of ...