See what's real. Know what changes. Protect what matters most.
Garland Network TAPs give iolite Secure a trusted, one-way copy of OT traffic. iolite turns it into an accurate asset inventory and real change alerts, without the overhead of a complex platform.
PassiveCopies traffic without touching live control paths
One-wayData diode design with hardware separation
Edge-firstRuns locally on modest hardware
Offline-readyBuilt for sites with little or no connectivity
The challenge
OT visibility without enterprise-scale complexity
Many OT sites need to know what's on their network and when it changes, but they can't staff or run a heavy security platform. iolite Secure and Garland Technology deliver a joint OT asset inventory and monitoring solution built for exactly those sites.
Garland supplies the trusted traffic copy. iolite turns it into local asset and behavior context.
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Phantom and duplicate asset records
Inventories fill with devices that don't exist or appear twice, so no one trusts the list.
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False-positive vulnerability alerts
Speculative matches bury teams in findings that don't apply to their real devices.
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Enterprise-scale overhead
Platforms built for large SOCs bring servers, cloud links and complexity small sites can't support.
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Limited staff and connectivity
Lean teams run sites that have little or no network connection back to headquarters.
Built for the sites that keep things running
Traffic signals
Water and wastewater
Electric utilities
Municipal systems
Small manufacturing
Remote and offline OT
How it works
From a trusted traffic copy to local, actionable context
Garland TAPs copy traffic from selected OT links. iolite Secure builds a baseline from what it actually observes and points your team to what changed. Select the diagram to view it full size.
Joint architecture
Passive OT visibility with iolite Secure and Garland Technology
Access trafficGarland copper or fiber TAPs copy traffic from selected OT links to a monitoring port. Live control traffic stays on its normal path, and a data diode design enforces one-way flow through hardware separation.
Build the baselineiolite passively discovers assets from observed communications and learns normal network behavior.
Focus on changesOT-aware detectors flag new or changed assets, unusual communication patterns and events that need review.
Respond locallyOperators review device context and use response playbooks at the edge, even without internet access.
Garland Technology supplies
The trusted traffic copy: purpose-built copper and fiber TAPs that deliver reliable, out-of-band visibility without depending only on switch SPAN.
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iolite Secure delivers
Local asset and behavior context: evidence-based inventory, behavioral baselines and change detection that a small team can act on.
Explore the joint solution
Pillar 01
Inventory with confidence
Evidence-based discovery reduces duplicate and phantom records and separates observed facts from assumptions.
Pillar 02
Less vulnerability noise
Findings are based on observed device evidence and behavior rather than speculative matches.
Pillar 03
Fit the real world
Runs at the edge on modest hardware, including disconnected sites, with no heavy server or cloud dependency.
More accurate asset inventory
Less alert noise
Lightweight local operation
No dedicated cybersecurity team required
Plan a clean deployment
A few decisions up front keep monitoring reliable and keep operations teams confident in the install.
Choose the right TAPMatch TAPs to link speed, media type and monitor-port format.
Coordinate the installSchedule and validate TAP installation with your operations teams.
Plan for powerPower loss can interrupt monitoring even when the live link is failsafe.
Weigh the evidenceAssess findings against the device evidence that is available.
About iolite Secure
iolite Secure provides OT-native passive and active inventory and monitoring, behavioral baselines, lightweight local deployment and workflow support for small teams.
OT-native passive and active inventory
Behavioral baselines and change detection
Lightweight, local deployment
Workflow support for small teams
About Garland Technology
Garland Technology is an industry leader of IT and OT network solutions for enterprise, critical infrastructure and government agencies worldwide. Since 2011, Garland Technology has been engineering and manufacturing simple, reliable and affordable Network TAPs and Network Packet Brokers in Richardson, Texas.
Garland's purpose-built TAPs and aggregators for copper and fiber provide reliable out-of-band visibility without depending solely on switch SPAN configurations.
Get the full joint solution brief, including the architecture, how it works, benefits and deployment considerations, in one PDF you can share with your team.