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February 20, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2020 - Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility, expanded their strategic partnership with Flowmon Networks, to provide a complete cloud security solution. The solution provides clear insights for real-time visibility and analysis against network anomalies and modern threats.
Flowmon Networks and Garland Technology solve and support business-critical services by turning a cloud-based infrastructure into a transparent environment for clear packet-level visibility. Flowmon provides powerful analytics and AI-powered incident detection, while Garland Prisms cloud visibility ensures access to either raw network or telemetry data.
“As enterprises move data and applications to the cloud, they are faced with challenges and blind spots that make navigating their environments increasingly more difficult,” says Chris Bihary, CEO of Garland Technology. “Our strong partnership with Flowmon offers a cost-effective solution to address these problems, providing visibility and intelligence into your cloud network.”
The solution allows enterprises, who lack a compact overview of the user’s traffic, instant insight into the root cause of problems. Once discovered with the Flowmon and Garland solution, an enterprise can take action based on the source of the problem.
“Organizations migrate their workloads into the cloud, but the performance and security of their cloud assets fall behind. The integrated Garland and Flowmon solution gives customers network traffic analysis for their cloud environments, to which NetOps and SecOps teams can perform advanced threat monitoring, performance troubleshooting, and anomaly detection in the same way used to in the on-premise world,” says Petr Špringl, Director of Products at Flowmon Networks.
Flowmon, a long-standing pioneer in delivering monitoring and security tools for high-speed networks, formed a technology alliance with Garland Technology in June 2016. Together, they have addressed the high-speed monitoring and security challenges of today’s data center networks. For more information on both their physical and cloud solution, visit garlandtechnology.com/flowmon-networks
About Flowmon Networks
Flowmon creates a secure and transparent digital environment where people rule the network regardless of its complexity and nature. www.flowmon.com
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.