TAP Into Technology Blog: Network Design (5)
Optimize your Network Design for Intrusion Detection Systems
With today’s heightened threat levels, many companies are shoring up their defenses and adding an intrusion detection system (IDS) to their security stacks. By constantly monitoring network and system activities for malicious activity or...
Network Engineer’s Guide to Reducing Mean Time to Resolution
The days of siloed IT infrastructures are quickly ending as services, applications and network components become more interdependent. IT infrastructures are becoming more complex and it’s falling on your shoulders to keep mean time to...
The 101 Series: Breakout Network TAPs
I recently wrote a blog about the six different types of network TAPs with a brief overview of each TAPs functionality. In this blog, I’m going to explain in detail more about how the breakout or commonly referred to tap mode operates....
Design-IT: How to TAP traffic in a virtual environment
Network TAPs provide the best and easiest way to see network traffic going over the network. Simply plugging the tap into the physical cables between two networked devices will capture each packet sent across that wire. By strategically...
How much is network downtime costing your company?
If your website is down, your organization is losing money. It’s as simple as that. And if your company website is down, it’s likely part of a larger issue affecting the network. So whether the lost revenue comes from lost sales if you’re...
The 6 Levels Of Thwarting Network Security Issues
No matter what type of organization you have, you always run the risk of a network security issue. There are internal risks, of course, and every business has connections to outside vendors that introduce your network to the unknown. Any...