TAP Into Technology Blog: TAPs vs SPAN
The 101 Series: TAP vs SPAN in OT Environments
Securing and monitoring your network is the ultimate goal. To accomplish this goal, teams utilize ICS security solutions designed to respond and manage threats in OT environments efficiently. To properly identify, detect, and respond to...
3 Visibility Tips to Improve your Monitoring and Security Tools
We have been speaking with more and more IT teams looking to stretch their budgets to meet tomorrow’s monitoring and security challenges. Speed and network complexity are outpacing tools they bought as recently as 5 years ago. On top of...
7 Common Visibility Challenges in Industrial Environments
The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) with Information Technology (IT), has exposed many challenges for the industrial space, including increased vulnerability to cyber attacks and network blindspots. Unfortunately, many companies...
What is Network Visibility and How to Guarantee 100% Data Capture
Network visibility has never been more important to the success of a business, regardless of industry. Addressing increasingly demanding business requirements has led to highly complex IT environments. And unfortunately, blind spots have...
Making a Case for Network TAPs to Provide Digital Legal Evidence
Sometimes we come across interesting requests from customers that are outside the normal security and monitoring applications within data centers or branch office locations. Recently, a law enforcement agency reached out to Garland...
Do's and Dont's of Packet Acquisition
In a previous post I wrote about the basics of packet data acquisition, why they are the foundation to network performance management tools. Most networks require their NPM tools to analyze packets from multiple network segments....