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NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker and cloud visibility solutions, today announced the release of the new EdgeSafe™ Bypass Network TAP. Developed to manage the availability of inline security tools, the EdgeSafe brings bypass reliability to 10G inline security tools.
"As the Edge of the network expands, managing the inline security tools tasked with protecting the network, like Intrusion Protection systems (IPS) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF), have become critical to cybersecurity," states Jerry Dillard, Chief Technical Officer, Garland Technology. "Mitigating network downtime is the bottom line. Garland solves this with the EdgeSafe Bypass TAP, which manages the availability and inline lifecycle of the device in a portable, cost-effective, easy to use form factor."
EdgeSafe™Network Bypass TAP — is a 1/10G bypass network TAP, purpose-built to provide the ultimate failsafe inline management device to future proof your network. The EdgeSafe is a portable 4 port appliance, that can rack mount four TAPs in a 1U, designed to bring added functionality to remote locations.
The EdgeSafe provides Garland Technology's full heartbeat bypass and failsafe technology, as well as additional features like advanced filtering, aggregation, tap 'breakout,' regeneration, and packet injection, which brings added flexibility to solve a multitude of challenges.
The EdgeSafe allows you to eliminate single points of failure, reduce network downtime, and cut deployment time, without compromising the network. Complete lifecycle management of inline tools like Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), IPS and WAF, allows you to sandbox new tool deployments, easily take tools out-of-band for updates, install patches, perform maintenance or troubleshoot to optimize and validate before pushing back inline. A Bypass TAP has quickly become the essential complement to any inline tool.
The continuous release of new products reflects the ongoing momentum Garland Technology is delivering to their customers worldwide. Garland Technology now delivers enterprise data center level functionality for the edge, with the first integrated bypass TAP family that can handle your entire security stack - from remote sites, data center and enterprise, and from 1G to 100G.
EdgeSafe Resources
EdgeLens product information:
https://www.garlandtechnology.com/products/edgesafe-bypass-network-tap
Additional inline bypass resources:
https://www.garlandtechnology.com/bypass-and-failsafe-solutions
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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.