TAP Into Technology Blog: Network TAPs (16)
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 introducing a potential “point of failure” when...
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 surveillance involved in HBO’s The Wire....
[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 Application Performance Monitoring? Monitoring...
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 going from ports A to B or the traffic...
[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 interesting scenarios and questions to figure out.
The 101 Series: A Primer On Network TAPs
When the subject of Network TAPs (Test Access Points or Traffic Access Point) are brought up, the image that may come to people’s mind is a device that 'taps into the network' to provide packet visibility by sending copies of traffic to an...