Jerry Dillard
Jerry Dillard, CTO and Co-founder of Garland Technology, leverages over two decades in design and engineering to ensure maximum performance within today’s network environments. Dillard, the inventor of the Bypass TAP, continues to innovate network visibility solutions worldwide.
What's the difference between BiDi and Bi-Directional?
Computer networking terminology can become overly fickle once vendor products get into the mix. To help alleviate the confusion, we’re going to go over how Garland Technology approaches terminology and hopefully clear up some understanding...
Advanced Persistent Threat Activity Exploiting Managed Service Providers
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has been tracking attacks on global Managed Service Providers (MSP) from Advanced Persistent Threat actors since 2016. Targets of these attacks spread across Information...
Secure your Surveillance System from a DDos Attack
IP surveillance is quickly becoming a commodity. As the price of high definition network cameras continues to fall, it’s easier to find room in your budget for a basic system. Physical security hardware sales are expected to increase 8.9%...
Selecting the Right Packet Broker for Your Network
The Network Packet Broker (NPB) has become a critical component to any network. They offer numerous benefits to both network operations and network security teams. With an increasing number of vendors offering these products, selecting the...
The 101 Series: Breakout Network TAPs
I recently wrote a blog about the six different types of network TAPs with a brief overview of each TAPs functionality. In this blog, I’m going to explain in detail more about how the breakout or commonly referred to tap mode operates....
Using a Breakout Cable with a Breakout TAP
A term that is often used when discussing the advantages of using an aggregation appliance is "Speed Conversion." Speed conversion enables communication between Multimode 40Gb or 100Gb connections, using MTP/MPO connectors, and with 10Gb...