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Network security and design go hand in hand. If you’re not strategic about building a network designed to protect your data, you’re apt to suffer an abundance of network security issues.
The key to your design is visibility, and the critical tool that empowers you with complete visibility is the network TAP.
Firewalls, prevention and detection systems, and all other security applications won’t help you completely protect your data unless they have perfect copies of your network traffic.
How do you leverage network TAPs to design a secure network?
Some strategic organizations are now using network TAPs to pass unobstructed data to deep-capture devices, which capture data events and store them for 30 to 45 days. If and when the organization detects a breach, they have the ability to go back and comprehend the breach methods that were used as well as see the actual data losses.
Analyzing and troubleshooting data after a breach is equally as important as trying to prevent the breach. Realistically, breaches are bound to happen. But, you’re more prepared to mitigate the risk of a future breach if you’re able to assess the network security issues that led to a given attack.
Just as having complete data is important for arming yourself, gathering all relevant information to conduct proper forensics and analysis is also essential.
This historical view protects you from fines and other loss liabilities. It serves as proof to governing agencies that are reviewing the breach, and it mitigates the risk of additional loss.
Creating a plane of visibility is key to designing a network infrastructure that accomplishes your most important goals – performance included. Ensuring a secure view to defend against hackers starts with tapping outside of your security perimeter to see attack types, methods, and data leakage.
The businesses with the strongest security systems are tapping links to more than one device and in multiple locations on the network, as multiple devices require such information. In fact, certain network TAPs are able to hook up several devices to your data.
With this approach, not only do you have real-time knowledge of an attempted attack, but you also have storage of that data and the ability to learn how to improve your network security.
You must be able to see how attackers are attempting to breach your network. You need visibility into critical layers, such as the unknown (outside your network) and your network edge, which includes tactics from subscriber and MAN/WAN monitoring to firewall, subnet, and record monitoring.
With TAPs inside your network and at the access level, you give the necessary information to the applications performing tactics such as user access control, workstation monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention, and more.
Take a step back and think about the areas of your network and applications that must have complete network visibility. Place network TAPs at these layers and outside of your security perimeter. Your network is going to be exponentially more secure.
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