Sycope is establishing further strategic partnerships and announces the integration with Garland Technology the leading US-based manufacturer of network TAPs, Network Packet Brokers, and Inline Bypass Solutions.
Sycope has teamed up with Garland Technology to ensure network performance monitoring solution receives every bit, byte and packet of data from key points in the network. Garland Technology can support Sycope in analyzing network traffic and detecting violation of security rules.
"Technology partnerships with well-known manufacturers of security products are great way to promote the exchange of knowledge. Customers benefit from far-reaching options so that their complex requirements are optimally met. Through the partnership with Garland, we can offer our customers further added value through product integration." said Tadeusz Dudek, CEO of Sycope
Garland Technology’s compact, high-performance network TAPs provide a copy of 100% of the wire data, both the East-West and West-East directions. The NetFlow data is sent to the Sycope Collector for network traffic analysis.
“Our partnership with Sycope reflects our TAP to Tool Philosophy, where we focus on making sure that critical security and monitoring tools receive the packets they need to perform their job. By expanding our partnership with organizations like Sycope, and validating the integration, we make sure that customers have confidence that they are getting a true picture of what is happening in their network .”
Said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder of Garland Technology
The cooperation opens new possibilities for both companies and their clients to address client's needs and expectations when facing day-to-day challenges in IT.
About Sycope
Sycope is focused on designing and developing highly specialised IT solutions for monitoring and improving network performance. Our solutions were created and developed by engineers, who have been working on the issues of network performance, application efficiency and IT security, using the solutions from global APM/ NPM and SIEM providers, they have completed more than 400 projects. For more information visit sycope.com
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About Garland Technology
Garland Technology is an industry leader of IT and OT network solutions for enterprise, 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. For help identifying 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 or @garland-technology-llc.
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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.