The Challenges Security Teams Face
Firstly, SPAN ports. For a long time these have been an insufficient solution to network security. It is remarkably easy for hackers to infiltrate routers, switches and networks without detection. SPAN does not provide access to real-time information either, which is another key issue that may greatly affect your network’s security. This is because SPAN ports groom your data, rather than Network TAPs which act as a window, allowing you to look through at any time, in real-time. Finally, when you need to heavily utilize your SPAN port, the switch performance becomes compromised, affecting performance.
A secure network, therefore, starts with a strategic and thorough network security architecture, as well as implementing the next-generation ethernet TAPs and traffic aggregators to successfully and smoothly monitor your network’s traffic. But what next?
After these high-investment and time-consuming efforts, you may find that you are still not receiving all of the traffic you were hoping for. This is because malware may be masked within TLS or SSL traffic, varying percentages of missing packets and potential blind spots of traffic may never reach your security tools, and while you are trying to figure the reasoning behind this, criminals are building knowledge on how to outwit perimeter detection and enter your network in different ways.
We have engineered our Network TAPs and Packet Brokers from the ground up, ensuring 100% traffic visibility and that all threats, no matter how small, are able to pass through our TAPs and be detected by your monitoring solution. Battling for control of network data will also be an issue of the past, as our ethernet TAPs allow for collaboration between NetOps and SecOps, which is key for a successfully run network.
