TAP Into Technology Blog

Precision Visibility: How Packet Filtering Transforms OT Monitoring

How excessive video traffic from IP security cameras can overwhelm OT monitoring sensors and inflate IDS licensing costs. Why most OT teams don’t need full video payloads – only camera status – and...

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

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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Network Monitoring and Incident Response for SMBs: Beyond Alert Fatigue

Editor’s Note This blog was written by Garland Technology’s channel partner OT Cyber Direct. It is part of a 5-part series detailing recommendations for SMBs (small and medium sized businesses) to...

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3 Benefits of a TAP Fabric in OT Networks

Every week, I hear from industrial companies about their cybersecurity tools needing access to the data flowing through their OT networks. In a previous post, I shared why companies are constantly...

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So, Your Warehouse Wants to Adopt Voice Application Technology, But Is Your Network Ready?

Intro Introduced in the early 2000s, voice application technology took the industrial world by storm — giving a vast range of supply chain workers a hands-free experience in their production line,...

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"Not another installation setback"

Summary Sleds and toboggans should go downhill, not IT or OT network out-of-band deployments. This blog discusses frequent setbacks the Garland engineering team hears from customers in the field when...

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