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  • Application Service Discovery – Week 7

    I went through the ntopng code that I had mentioned last week, but I couldn’t gain a lot of information from it. So, I decided to dump it and proceed with writing code for my project.

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 6

    Last week when I was trying to read data from packets, I came across a lot of garbled or unreadable data. I thought I could be unpacking the packets wrong, but I verified that I wasn’t. I realised that that data was just encrypted data and thus, unless I had the session keys as well, […]

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 5

    After finishing a basic pcap parser that discovers web-servers running in a network, I wrote a simple wireshark-like program in python that can capture any packet either on the specified interface or on all interfaces.

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 4

    After collecting data by using Wireshark, I started thinking of ways to identify services and hosts in the network.

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 3

    I spent the past week learning about passive service discovery (PSD), and how it compares against active service discovery. PSD works on the principle of non-disruptive traffic analysis. In simpler words, it does not interfere in any way whatsoever with the traffic in the network and it is invisible to all the other hosts in […]

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 2

    Application Service Discovery – Week 2

    How does ServiceNow service discovery work? Agentless discovery Two parts: Communications Data collection and processing

  • Application Service Discovery – Week 1

    DigitalOcean has an excellent series on The Docker Ecosystem, and part 3 of this series explains the general concepts of Application Service Discovery (ASD). I’d recommend it to anyone who has no clue what ASD is, and wants to understand it, from a fairly abstract point of view.

  • Hello world!

    I’ll be writing about what I learn while doing my final year project which is based on application service discovery, and also take you through a journey of finding out which is the best biriyani in Bangalore!

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