TAP Into Technology Blog: Network Security
Building a Modern Observability Stack with Garland, Corelight, and Humio
From Packets to Logs to Dashboards Beginning with packets In its most basic form, data travels across the internet in packets — each carrying a maximum of 1,500 bytes — until they reach a pre-determined destination. As packets arrive,...
What is SSL and TLS and How it Works in Today’s Security
As today’s enterprises deploy more software to the cloud, while integrating software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications into their critical business infrastructure, the need for security and monitoring is obvious. With this need, SSL/TLS...
Monitoring Business Critical Application in the Cloud with Garland Prisms and Flowmon
When you’re driving on a foggy day, how can you stay safe when you can’t even see the road in front of you? Blind spots in the car are similar to blind spots within your cloud-based data center if not properly monitored. Securing your...
How to Mirror Packets to your Monitoring Tools in AWS and Public Cloud Environments
Traffic visibility is a crucial component in securing a business and keeping systems operational. Organizations have made significant investments in specialized tools that ingest and analyze packet-level data for on-premise data centers....
Cyber Security Threat Breakdown [2019 Recap]
Over the past year, we have seen way too many hacks and data breaches in the headlines. Here is your roundup of the largest cyber attacks from 2019, including causes, resolutions, and what you can do to protect your data.
Top 10 Security Challenges of 2019
In 2019 our team was at dozens of trade shows and conferences around the world. While we were out in the field, we surveyed thousands of people at events like CiscoLive, InfoSec, RSA, Cyber Security Summits, and FutureCons, asking them,...