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February 23, 2021
New York — February 23, 2021 — Endace, specialists in high-speed network recording, and Garland Technology, a leading provider of network TAP, packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions, today announced a partnership to deliver deep visibility into network activity for security, network operations, and IT teams.
With the increase of complex hybrid environments and changing network speeds, responding to malicious activity and performance issues has become more challenging. Acquiring accurate packet-level visibility is essential to quickly manage application outages or security threats. By combining Garland Technology’s TAPS, network packet brokers (NPBs), and cloud visibility solutions with Endace’s scalable, high-speed EndaceProbe Analytics Platform, organizations gain packet-level visibility that enables issue resolution in minutes rather than hours or days.
Stuart Wilson, CEO of Endace, said “Partnering with Garland Technology gives our mutual customers across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and government an accurate and efficient way to aggregate and record network traffic that scales and adapts as their network requirements evolve. Security and operations teams can mobilize to resolve cyberthreats and performance problems quickly and confidently.”
The EndaceProbe’s open architecture lets organizations integrate recorded network history into all their network security and performance monitoring solutions. Analysts can pivot from an alert in any of their tools directly to the related packet evidence in a single click. This dramatically streamlines and accelerates issue investigation and eliminates the guesswork.
The EndaceProbe platform can host a wide range of software-based security and performance monitoring solutions. Combining this capability with Garland Technology’s network TAPs and packet brokers allow flexible and agile deployment of real-time security and performance monitoring technologies to any point in the network. Customers can, for example, deploy tools like Zeek on their EndaceProbes to analyze traffic from anywhere on the network.
Chris Bihary, CEO / Co-Founder of Garland Technology, said “Our TAP to Tool philosophy focuses on ensuring customers can direct the right data to critical tools for fast investigation and resolution. This complements the EndaceProbe platform’s ability to record traffic and host analysis tools. The combination of Garland Technology and Endace solutions gives our mutual customers efficient visibility into what’s happening anywhere on their physical or hybrid cloud network.”
Garland Technology’s solutions enable customers to cost-effectively deploy what you need when you need it with modular solutions for growth. Customers can tap, aggregate, filter, and load-balance network traffic and direct it to critical tools, such as EndaceProbes, as well as to their other inline or out-of-band security and performance monitoring solutions.
Together, these two technologies give customers a scalable, flexible, and agile solution to resolve and remediate network security and management issues. For more information on the Endace and Garland joint solution and partnership, check out garlandtechnology.com/endace.
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.