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Unrivaled Ease of Use
Despite its high sophistication, NTA has been designed to operate in much the same way as a VCR video recorder, recording communications data travelling across your network and playing it back at a later time (or in real time). Rather than looking at raw data in packets and trying to understand what it represents. Giving the ability to reconstruct network traffic — such as emails, instant messages, web pages and more — back into its original format with the simple click of a button. In addition, the simple-to-navigate, graphical user interface provides easy point-and-click control over all the functions of the software.

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Comprehensive Traffic Statistics and Reports
The NTA provides a larger variety of statistical measurements than most other traffic analysers. These metrics can be viewed in an assortment of graphical views, such as pie charts and bar graphs, and provide information on protocol distribution, top hosts, packet-size distribution and bandwidth usage. NTA also allows us to generate comprehensive traffic reports that can be viewed in a browser window, printed out or copied into another program. NTA even provides detailed protocol distribution reports to analyse individual IP traffic.

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Provides Forensic Evidence of Security Breaches
NTA will capture every movement an attacker has made through your network and create a complete audit trail of his or her activity. In addition, any internal users who may have inadvertently or knowingly contributed to the security breach can be identified. Because NTA makes the job of decoding and analysing that critical information fast and easy, valuable time is saved catching the perpetrators.

Assists in Troubleshooting Performance Issues
By monitoring network traffic statistics, NTA allows us to quickly pinpoint the sources of performance problems. Armed with this knowledge, we can take immediate action to resolve issues and more quickly get your users back in business. More importantly, NTA allows us to continuously monitor network performance, and to proactively identify — and take steps to eliminate — issues before they can result in major downtime for your users.

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Facilitates Policy Enforcement
With NTA, automated filters can be set up in any number of combinations to flag and record specific network traffic that contains a particular MAC or IP address, unacceptable words or websites and more. Because we can actually see the web pages and email attachments viewed by suspicious employees, we can quickly determine whether or not company security is being compromised or corporate policies abused. In addition, NTA delivers a complete audit trail of network activity, delivering the evidence you need to take appropriate action against those committing malicious or non-compliant acts.

Assists in Program Debugging
NTA is an outstanding tool for helping our programmers debug new applications while they are still in the development stage. By allowing an application to run and monitoring its behavior on the network, NTA can help you spot troublesome behaviour before the application is rolled out.

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Helps You Make Educated Decisions About Your Network
Because NTA gives us an inside view of your network, we will be able to make more informed decisions about the current and future needs of your users. For instance, by analysing how systems are being used, we can better maximise bandwidth across the network, reallocate resources and more effectively plan for future growth.

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Advanced Data Reconstruction
NTA's powerful data reconstruction capabilities take raw data in packets and turn it into complete HTTP, SMTP and POP3 sessions in their original format. With NTA, we have the ability to view both outgoing and incoming email messages, web browsing sessions, instant messenger exchanges, non-encrypted web-based email and FTP transfers.

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Sophisticated Packet Manipulation and Forging Capabilities
NTA's Packet Editor gives you the ability to create custom or spoof packets and to send them across the Internet, to specific ports or addresses, or repeatedly across the network. By analysing the ensuing traffic patterns, we can troubleshoot and stress-test your network, test the integrity of your firewalls and more.

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Extensive Filtering Options
NTA can be easily configured to only capture specific data through any combination of packet filters. Packet filters can be based on the hardware or protocol layer, any number of key words, MAC or IP address, source and destination port, custom data and size of the packets. When setting up filters, we can have NTA either capture only those packets matching the filter condition or to exclude those packets when capturing data. When filtering for keywords, NTA can be configured to capture only the traffic matching the applied filter, or to capture all network traffic and flag the sessions containing the filtered keywords.


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Valuable Post-Capture Data Analysis (Data Mining) Capabilities
NTA's Data Miner feature allows us to analyse saved capture files created by NTA or any other network traffic analyser. Data Miner can process any amount of data, from a single traffic file to large amounts of captured data at one time. All of NTA's key features — including decoding, searching for keywords, generating traffic statistics, creating traffic reports and more — are available for us to make a comprehensive analysis of the saved traffic. With NTA's Keyword Search feature, we can also have previously captured sessions containing specific words or strings marked for easy identification.

Highly-Developed Protocol Decoding
NTA quickly organises captured packets by session and categorises them by protocol such as HTTP or SNMP. In this way, NTA provides a list of all web-browsing sessions, all email grouped by incoming and outgoing, and more for quick and easy analysis.

Powerful Sniffing Engine
NTA's highly advanced sniffing engine is continually fine-tuned to deliver more optimised data capture and decoding for networks of all sizes and all levels of complexity. NTA can scale up to handle as much traffic as your network generates and still write logs and decode traffic in real time. In addition, NTA has a fast packet injector that handles up to 9000 packets per second.

Highly-Developed Scheduling Function
Rather than capturing data from your entire organisation at all times, we can configure NTA to automatically run and capture packets only in certain time frames with its advanced yet easy-to-use Scheduler function. With Scheduler, we can set NTA to automatically capture data day or night during any number of time frames per week.

Useful Alerting Capabilities
NTA's Guard module monitors all connections to your computer, and can be configured to alert you when a specific connection is detected. Guard keeps a log of the date and time of the connection attempt, the IP address, the port involved and more.