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Buffalo, New York, May 6, 2024 -
Garland Technology, a leading manufacturer of Network TAPs, Network Packet Brokers, Inline Bypass, and Hardware Data Diodes, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Mira Security, creator of advanced decrypting technology. This partnership gives Garland Technology the rights to distribute Mira Security’s commercial solutions worldwide.
Since 2011, Garland Technology has been helping companies’ IT and OT network monitoring and cyber security technologies deliver their promise of performance and protection because Garland Technology reliably delivers all of the network packets the solutions need to perform. With this new partnership, customers can now increase the performance of and enhance the effectiveness of these technologies by removing any blind spots in the network caused by encrypted traffic.
“Encrypted network traffic is the norm in enterprise networks today, with over 90% of north/south traffic and over 65% of east/west traffic being encrypted. As TLS 1.3 improves the security provided through encryption, it also reduces the visibility for security devices that do not decrypt traffic,” said Chris Bihary, CEO & Co-Founder of Garland Technology. “Fortunately, installing our EdgeLens Inline External Bypass at the edge of the network and pairing with Mira Security’s Encrypted Traffic Orchestrator ensures that inline and out-of-band tools can see encrypted traffic.”
“This partnership allows Mira Security to broaden our reach with the industry’s most powerful decrypting solution that automatically detects SSL, TLS, and SSH traffic and feeds it to one or more security tools that detect and mitigate any threats that may be present,” said Niel Viljoen, CEO of Mira Security. “Garland Technology’s global channel will help more organizations eliminate blind spots caused by encrypted traffic.”
Under the terms of this distribution agreement, Garland Technology will:
About Garland Technology
Garland Technology is an industry leader in IT and OT network solutions for enterprises, critical infrastructures, 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. To help identify the right IT/OT network visibility solutions for projects large and small, or to learn more about the inventor of the first bypass technology, visit GarlandTechnology.com.
About Mira Security
Mira Security’s mission is to provide visibility into network traffic as our customers transition to higher speeds and new architectures, and to eliminate the compromise between privacy and security along their journey. We will build lasting relationships with our valued customers and partners and deliver innovative encryption software and products. Mira Security’s products are developed in labs in Pittsburgh, PA and Centurion, South Africa. To learn more about Mira Security and its products, please visit www.mirasecurity.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.