TAP Into Technology Blog: Network TAPs (3)
Ensuring Success of New Federal Zero Trust Initiatives
Making Progress with Federal Zero Trust Initiatives President Biden designated October as “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” and the White House released a fact sheet updating the progress made on his May 2021 executive order on national...
5 Reasons to TAP your Network
Why do I need TAPs? That’s a question I hear a lot from people in the field. Either they aren’t familiar with TAPs, or even if they are, with a low utilization, they may think there isn’t an application that makes sense for them. We’ll I’m...
3 Uses of Complete Visibility in OT Environments
In part three of my OT visibility series, we’ll review what next steps OT and ICS organizations are taking once they have a foundation of visibility with a TAP and aggregation fabric. If you haven’t read my previous posts, I suggest...
Life saving benefits of using a Network TAP
At RSAC 2022, Garland Technology had the privilege of working inside the ICS Village booth in the Sandbox. It was a great opportunity to teach RSAC attendees about industrial control systems and OT networks. For example, Garland’s Systems...
How to Improve Telco VoIP Troubleshooting – What every Field Engineer should know
I spent many years as a technical support engineer for a Telecommunications company that did voice and data services in third-tier markets. We would be called in to troubleshoot any performance issues with the equipment. Our customers were...
The 101 Series: Active Network TAPs—Where, When and How
Network connectivity is critical to any security or network monitoring project. Many are always asking us which network TAP is right for them. In a recent post, we discussed the ins and outs of passive network TAPs which are typically...