TAP Into Technology Blog

Preventing Packet Loss for Optimal Network Performance

Downtime is an expense that few businesses can afford in the age of hybrid work and digital transformation. According to Datto, an hour of downtime costs $8,000 for a small company, $74,000 for a...

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Firewalls vs. Data Diode — Why OT Security Teams Turn to Data Diode TAPs

Air gaps and segmentation are common concepts to secure OT networks, with the goal of minimizing the harm of a breach and threats by isolating it to a limited part of the network. Unless an attacker...

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Closing the Visibility Gap for Financial Cybersecurity Threats

Financial institutions are a storehouse of attractive data for attackers. Although most attacks against financial organizations don’t necessarily succeed in emptying coffers outright, other...

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Making a Case for Network TAPs to Provide Digital Legal Evidence

Sometimes we come across interesting requests from customers that are outside the normal security and monitoring applications within data centers or branch office locations. Recently, a law...

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Improve Network Packet Broker ROI with an Aggregation Layer

The aggregation layer, and thus the four-tiered approach to network visibility grew out of the need to maximize the ROI of NPBs and monitoring and security tools. Before we talk about the aggregation...

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Network Visibility Fabric Design - Focus on the Core

We’ve previously talked about the importance of the access layer, aggregation layer and edge to a well-designed network visibility fabric. Tapped traffic from the access layer flows to the...

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