Garland Technology, the leading manufacturer of network test access point (TAPs), today announced a technology partnership with eSentire Inc., a leader in managed cyber threat detection and response services. Both companies are Cisco solution providers and will showcase their security and connectivity solutions at Cisco Live (July 10-14, 2016) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees can visit Garland Technology in the Security Partners Pavilion (S3), and eSentire in the Investment Partners Pavilion (I16).“To align with eSentire, whose entire business model is based on providing off-the-wire 100% guaranteed data capture, is a significant milestone for Garland Technology. eSentire offers a premium level of service to its customers, both in advanced technology and exceptional service. We are proud to be a part of ensuring eSentire’s customers’ complete satisfaction,” says Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder of Garland Technology.
“Keeping pace with continually evolving threats is mission critical in the world of cybersecurity,” said J.Paul Haynes, eSentire CEO. “As threats escalate in our Security Operations Center (SOC), part of our capabilities include our analysts being able to quickly investigate them through our unique full packet capture-based approach. Garland’s Aggregating Network TAPs hardware allows eSentire to capture and aggregate full duplex network traffic from copper and fiber sources, which is mandatory to support eSentire’s advanced hunting tradecraft. Leveraging Garland’s best-in-class product ensures that our security analysts have access to the richest possible data set.”
About Garland Technology
Garland Technology guarantees precise data monitoring capabilities with a full line of network access points (TAPs) including: network TAPs that support breakout, aggregation, regeneration and bypass modes; packet brokering, load balancing and filtering products; all available in portable, 1U or 2U chassis systems. Garland network TAPs support all networks, including copper wire in 10/100M, 10/100/1000M and fiber in 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G. Garland’s network TAPs avoid introducing additional software that could be a point of failure to your network.
Garland’s design and educational-based approach includes a team of network designers to work directly with you and your team to meet your network access and visibility needs and provide you with the best solution for any monitoring or security appliance - allowing you to see every bit, byte and packet®. For more information, visit www.garlandtechnology.com.
About eSentire
eSentire® is an industry leader, providing managed detection and response services to mid-sized organizations, keeping them safe from constantly evolving cyber attacks that traditional security defenses simply can’t detect. eSentire combines people, process, and technology to deliver an unmatched, premium level service that detects, remediates, and communicates sophisticated cyber threats in real-time, 24X7. Protecting more than $3.2 trillion in Assets under Management (AuM), eSentire is the award-winning choice for security decision-makers in mid-size enterprises. eSentire has received multiple accolades for exceptional service, including numerous HFM (Hedge Fund Manager) Service Provider awards (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). In 2015, eSentire was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 TM and Fast 500TM lists, and included in the 2015 “Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services” report by Gartner, Inc. For more information, visit www.esentire.com and follow @esentire on Twitter.
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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.