TAP Into Technology Blog

How to Choose the Right Cables for Your Industrial Ethernet

It’s easy to get ahead of ourselves when we talk about the Industrial Ethernet. You look at the ever-growing reality of the Industrial Internet of Things and the longstanding concerns for security in...

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The 101 Series: Bypass Network TAPs Keepers of the Critical Link

There are some great network tools on the market that provide protection for your organization's operations on the Internet. The problem with using them is that they can do the unthinkable by...

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It’s Not Wiretapping—It’s Network Tapping

We all know those old mobster movies, right? Where the cops are tapping phone lines to take down America’s most wanted criminals. Or if you need a more recent example, you can think of all of the...

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[Infographic] Are You Monitoring a 1G, 10G, 40G or 100G Network?

What tools are you deploying in your network? Are you monitoring out-of-band with tools like Wireshark, forensics, Intrusion Detection Systems, Security Information and Event Management or...

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The 101 Series: Why Do We Need an Aggregating Network TAP?

If you remember in my post on Breakout TAPs, there was a small problem when your network analyzer or monitoring device only had one network interface card (NIC). You could only look at the traffic...

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[video] Observing The Impact Multiple Default Gateways With Wireshark

I was speaking with a client the other day and they were asking me how Microsoft behaves if a device has two default gateways. One thing I have to say about my job and clients, I always get...

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