Garland Technology ensures complete packet visibility by delivering a full platform of network TAP (test access point), inline bypass and packet broker products.
Garland Technology is committed to educating the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. By providing this insight we protect the security of data across your network and beyond.
Garland Technology's resource library offers free use of white papers, eBooks, use cases, infographics, data sheets, video demos and more.
The TAP into Technology blog provides the latest news and insights on network access and visibility, including: network security, network monitoring and appliance connectivity and guest blogs from Industry experts and technology partners
Our extensive technology partnership ecosystem solves critical problems when it comes to network security, monitoring, application analysis, forensics and packet inspection.
Garland Technology is dedicated to high standards in quality and reliability, while delivering the greatest economical solutions for enterprise, service providers, and government agencies worldwide.
Whether you are ready to make a network TAP your foundation of visibility or just have questions, please contact us. Ask us about the Garland Difference!
As businesses place more emphasis on mobility and the cloud, some corners of the industry have begun to wonder out loud about whether it's time to re-think firewalls to keep pace with today's evolving data security challenges. Adaptation is survival, and security platforms will need to do precisely that in 2016 and beyond.
So, how did we get there, and who's leading the way on the technology side today?
More than two decades have passed since the enterprise network firewall market was born. There were earlier iterations of firewalls, but the market took off when network administrators gained the ability to set sharply-tailored rules limiting only highly specific bands of IP traffic. Then and now, that's always been the name of the game—having the agility to block nothing but the undesirable traffic.
These days, the old-school “live wire” standard, based on a physical connection between peers on a LAN, has given way to something much nimbler—and Palo Alto Networks, a Garland Technology partner, has been leading this charge.
Next Generations aren't just the purview of Star Trek. Since 2007, Palo Alto Networks has typified the notion of the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), the newest stage of integration in data security. NGFWs allow administrators an unprecedented level of freedom in adjusting their security configuration using a broad range of tools from a single console, even on networks distributed across numerous remote locations.
Palo Alto Networks’ system is unique due to its Single-Pass Architecture, a design that boosts efficiency by contextualizing all traffic in real-time. This isn't just a firewall, but a comprehensive security platform that incorporates intrusion detection systems (IDSs), which reveal internal network threats your typical firewall just won't see on its own. Due to these and other innovations, Palo Also Networks was ranked #2 on Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant.
The Fight for the Future
As cyber attackers become increasingly sophisticated, firewalls will have to change accordingly. From any angle, the firewall market is trending toward three particular ideas:
Parameters must change just as the nature of threats themselves have done, with a particular emphasis on the cloud and mobile environments.
Working within the cloud, as a shared model, requires a shared approach to security, which places some real pressure on customers themselves: as “cloud-first” continues to take hold, customers are more and more likely to entrust their personal data to these networks, particularly through mobile payment applications.
In this brave new world, security isn't just about external threats. Palo Alto Networks predicts that this shared model requires administrators to pay specific attention to the data that regular users can and cannot access inside the network because, for now, internal traffic generally isn't monitored with the same real-time tools as the external.
Cyber security has never looked more like a frontier as we gaze into the technological crystal ball. You've got to be prepared to respond swiftly to every threat, from malware programs to exploit attacks that legacy platforms just won't detect.
As the future of firewalls comes to fruition through 2020, one thing will always remain the same—the need for 100% network uptime and visibility.
Download our free white paper, Internal vs. External Network TAPs to learn the best practices for properly connecting your NGFWs and other security appliances to guarantee network visibility and access while maintaining 100% network uptime.
Chris Bihary, CEO and Co-founder of Garland Technology, has been in the network performance industry for over 20 years. Bihary has established collaborative partnerships with technology companies to complement product performance and security through the integration of network TAP visibility.