AVC application control and visibility is another gadget on our security utility belt AVC not to be
confused with net flow only provides application metrics.
This is valuable information for security monitoring because it allows you to see how much bandwidth
each protocol is using on your network.
In addition to monitoring with AVC policies can be configured based on ABC data to filter or throttle
malicious applications in the lab I have a Cisco router that's running and bar version 2 which is what
Cisco devices use to collect AVC information here I'm logged into the application visibility dashboard
running on the router as you can see it gives a nice summary of application usage for traffic traversing
this router.
So one of my routers had really high utilization with this AVC information I can take a quick look and
make sure that I had business applications using up the bandwidth instead of something malicious like
a torrent to download.