December 9, 2020
Axellio and Garland Technology Partner to Mitigate Business Critical Vulnerabilities With Complete Visibility
Partnership Provides Packet-Level Insights For Real-Time Data Analysis
Colorado Springs, CO/New York, December 9, 2020 — Axellio, a leading innovator in high-performance network packet capture, storage, and Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions, today announced a technology partnership. The joint solution is designed to provide exceptional visibility and analysis of organizations’ network traffic to dramatically improve the detection of cybersecurity threats.
“Reliable packet level-visibility is essential to obtain accurate results from an organization’s monitoring infrastructure and to get to the root cause of any attack,” said Bill Miller, CEO, Axellio.  “However, as data volume exponentially grows within networks, this is a daunting challenge.  Axellio and Garland have solved this issue through a solution that captures data at extremely high rates without so much as one packet lost.  This eliminates any blind spots in networks, significantly improving their cybersecurity posture.”
Axellio PacketXpress and Garland Technology’s visibility solutions come together to provide complete traffic data for detailed forensics on events while also buffering the monitoring and analysis infrastructure. Capturing and recording data up to 100Gbps sustained with zero packet loss, the solution extends the useful life of the network and security monitoring and analysis applications while reducing operating costs.
“The majority of cyberattacks begin within the confines of the network, which are vulnerable to a wide range of risks. Creating end-to-end visibility eliminates dangerous blind spots and improves cybersecurity,” said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder, Garland Technology.  “We’re excited to work with Axellio to strengthen the security architecture where there may be vulnerabilities within an enterprise, the federal government, and military agency networks.” 
Integration Benefits:
To eliminate the possibility of blind spots and deep packet analysis, the Axellio and Garland Technology solution captures 100% of the packet level data across any infrastructure. Once the data is captured and stored from Garland’s visibility solution of networks TAPs and Advanced Aggregators, Axellio PacketXpress streamlines the analysis process, shortening time to resolution, providing rapid access to any pre-or post-event data for forensic analysis.  
Axellio smooths out traffic spikes by distributing captured traffic at controlled rates that would overload monitoring applications and lead to data loss. This extends the useful life of your monitoring infrastructure, delaying necessary upgrades. For root cause and forensic analysis, Axellio PacketXpress also provides fast access to all packets pre-and post-event to quickly determine the mitigation for any security breach.  
IT Ops and Sec Ops Benefits 
For more information on the Axellio and Garland joint solution and partnership, check out garlandtechnology.com/axellio
If the inline security tool goes off-line, the TAP will bypass the tool and automatically keep the link flowing. The Bypass TAP does this by sending heartbeat packets to the inline security tool. As long as the inline security tool is on-line, the heartbeat packets will be returned to the TAP, and the link traffic will continue to flow through the inline security tool. 
If the heartbeat packets are not returned to the TAP (indicating that the inline security tool has gone off-line), the TAP will automatically 'bypass' the inline security tool and keep the link traffic flowing. The TAP also removes the heartbeat packets before sending the network traffic back onto the critical link. 
While the TAP is in bypass mode, it continues to send heartbeat packets out to the inline security tool so that once the tool is back on-line, it will begin returning the heartbeat packets back to the TAP indicating that the tool is ready to go back to work. The TAP will then direct the network traffic back through the inline security tool along with the heartbeat packets placing the tool back inline. 
Some of you may have noticed a flaw in the logic behind this solution!  You say, “What if the TAP should fail because it is also in-line? Then the link will also fail!” The TAP would now be considered a point of failure. That is a good catch – but in our blog on Bypass vs. Failsafe, I explained that if a TAP were to fail or lose power, it must provide failsafe protection to the link it is attached to. So our network TAP will go into Failsafe mode keeping the link flowing.
Single point of failure: a risk to an IT network if one part of the system brings down a larger part of the entire system.
Heartbeat packet: a soft detection technology that monitors the health of inline appliances. Read the heartbeat packet blog here.
Critical link: the connection between two or more network devices or appliances that if the connection fails then the network is disrupted.