TAP Into Technology Blog

Data at Risk: Corporate Confidentiality and VTech’s Data Breach

In the first Data at Risk series post about corporate confidentiality, we discussed a few industry-agnostic cornerstone attacks on corporate data and the need for network TAPs for visibility. One of...

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Maintaining Visibility Amidst 2016 Software-Defined Networking Trends

Software-defined networking (SDN) offers cost-cutting, performance and security benefits that businesses gravitated toward in 2015. However, SDN is constantly changing and you must be prepared to...

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QUICK TIPS: Installing Multiple Cisco Switches

In the Field - I was working with a project team installing over 100 Cisco switches across three towers. Daunting as that is, it was also an active construction site, which means power is not...

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Cyber Security Year in Review: Major Data Breaches of 2015

Despite innovative new cyber security appliances and applications, hackers are finding ways to push data breach statistics to new heights. Even though 2014 was deemed the year of the data breach,...

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Network Architect’s Guide to Ensuring Network Monitoring Visibility

The days of solving network problems by purchasing more bandwidth, extra storage or new servers are over. As network traffic demands increase rapidly, these traditional approaches to resolving...

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Anonymous vs. ISIS—A New Dimension of Cyber Warfare

A war is being waged in the wake of the devastating terrorist attack in Paris. But it’s not the kind of war you’ve read about and witnessed throughout your life. The President isn’t going to announce...

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