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Real Time Passive Monitoring is the Smarter Solution
Our infrastructure is at risk. In 2013, an Iranian hacker broke into the flow control mechanism for a dam in upstate New York. Only the fact that the dam itself was broken prevented him from remotely controlling the structure. In Ukraine,...
Sharkfest 2016 – Feeding Wireshark Every Bit, Byte and Packet®
Insights from a first-timer by Randy Clark. Garland Technology and our CEO/Co-Founder Chris Bihary have been attending and presenting at Sharkfest since its inception in 2008, this was my first dive into Sharkfest and the Wireshark...
A Practical Example: 1G In-Line and Out-of-Band Connectivity
Even if you’ve already realized the inferiority of SPAN ports and started moving to network TAPs, you still have to make sure your network design is set up for visibility into every bit, byte and packet® of traffic. However, the increasing...
A Hybrid Approach Is the Future of MSSPs
Beyond the troubling data breach statistics, businesses of all sizes face a serious cyber security issue—a cyber skills shortage and the cost of hiring rare security network experts. The level of difficulty to build an expert in-house...
Bringing Remote Management to Network Architecture
Industries such as finance and retail are accustomed to dealing with the common challenges of remote site management. However, while virtual network computing (VNC) has made IT systems administration easier from a desktop interface,...
Wireshark – From Ethereal to Today
The story about Wireshark is entwined with the story of Gerald Combs, the inventor, founder and heart behind Wireshark. It was always Gerald’s dream to build an open source, world class network analyzer, which is now the number one...