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Garland Technology Grows Tech Partner Footprint in Europe With Orsec Technologies

November 20, 2019

BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions, today announced a tech partner alliance with Orsec Technologies SAS, and their powerful OORIGIN Cyber Security platform. This strategic partnership solidifies the continued growth of Garland Technology's European partner ecosystem to build integrated cyber exposure solutions.

"The global need for network visibility is abundantly apparent when designing network security solutions," says Chris Bihary, CEO & Founder at Garland Technology. "Most tools cannot perform adequately when they are not receiving complete packet data. By providing 100% visibility to tools like OORIGIN, we are empowering users with a complete picture of what's happening in their network." 

The Garland Technology and Orsec joint solution ensures the security of users' data with deep packet inspection (DPI) providing visibility into the network traffic. This new solution passively monitors and inspects IPv4 traffic and classifies it into flows, describing the protocols, application events, and associated metadata. Using live wire data, Garland Technology and Orsec provide an end-to-end visibility solution that sends traffic from the passive fiber network TAPs and PacketMAXTM Advanced Aggregators, filtering and load balancing the traffic before sending the data through the OORIGIN network monitoring tool to empower IT security audits. 

"When securing an IT infrastructure, getting 100% visibility of network traffic is the primary goal," says Jean-Luc Rouinvy, CEO & Founder of Orsec Technologies. "We're very excited to work with Garland Technology and provide a 360° strategy for deep packet inspection."

For more information on the Garland Technology + OORIGIN partnership and joint solution, go to garlandtechnology.com/oorigin.

For full press release, please visit: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/garland-technology-grows-tech-partner-footprint-in-europe-with-orsec-technologies-300961735.html

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Heartbeats Packets Inside the Bypass TAP

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.

Glossary

  1. 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.

  2. Heartbeat packet: a soft detection technology that monitors the health of inline appliances. Read the heartbeat packet blog here.

  3. Critical link: the connection between two or more network devices or appliances that if the connection fails then the network is disrupted.

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