TAP Into Technology Blog

[Vote] How will InfoSec Prioritize its $1 Trillion Spending?

With organizations like Bank of America publicly stating that they have an unlimited budget to fight cybercrime, it no surprise in the recent Cybersecurity Market Report by Cybersecurity Ventures...

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Network TAP Split Ratios & Loss Budget

Do you know what a Split Ratio is on a fiber network TAP? Well there was a time when I didn't, either. But I know what a seven-ten split is in bowling and I know what it means to “split hairs,” but I...

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Sustaining Full Duplex Line Rate Capture to Disk on 100G Connections

Guest blog by Andrew Watters, Raellic CEO/Director Advances in hardware in recent years have made it possible for anyone with a reasonable level of experience to build a device that captures all...

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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...

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Garland Unveils New 1G Modular Packet Broker System

On April 28th, Garland Technology revealed its new 1G Modular Packet Broker System, in either a 1U or 2U Chassis. This is Garland's first 1G chassis system capable of intelligent port-to-port data...

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Is Your Bypass Showing?

I’ve titled this one “Your Bypass Is Showing,” because you just can’t make this stuff up. As we conduct analysis on major problems we look for the ordinary first, always with the thought in the back...

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