FLOWER IPv4/IPv6 Network Flow Summarization software

Software · Sun Apr 03 20:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220718.46· OSTI ID:code-76406 · Code ID:76406

Nickless, Bill ^[1]; Curtis, Darren ^[1]; Christy, Jason ^[1]; Younkin, Chance ^[1]; Mount, Jason ^[1]; Lenaeus, Joe ^[1]; Griswold, Richard ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

FLOWER was written as a refactoring/reimplementation of the existing Flo software used by the Cooperative Protection Program (CPP) to provide network flow summaries for analysis by the Operational Analysis Center (OAC) and other US Department of Energy cyber security elements. FLOWER is designed and tested to operate at 10 gigabits/second, nearly 10 times faster than competing solutions. FLOWER output is optimized for importation into SQL databases for categorization and analysis. FLOWER is written in C++ using current best software engineering practices.

• Short Name / Acronym: FLOWER
• Project Type: Closed Source
• Site Accession Number: 4677
• Software Type: Scientific
• License(s): Other (Commercial or Open-Source)
• Programming Language(s): C++
• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IN)

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC05-76RL01830
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• Code ID: 76406
• OSTI ID: code-76406
• Country of Origin: United States