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Explore Garland's Self-Guided Tours

Garland and Carahsoft have partnered together to provide a series of self-guided tours of Garland's products and features. Similar to a live demo, the self-guided tours explores how Garland's products and features applies to a specific technology vertical such as IoT & OT.

 

Learn about Garland's benefits, watch a short pre-recorded demo video, and download related resources. If interested in furthering the conversation, you can also schedule a live demo with a Garland expert from Carahsoft. Start a Self-Guided Tour now by selecting one below: 

 

Garland Technology IoT & OT Self-Guided Tour  

Garland Technology IoT & OT Self-Guided Tour

Garland Technology empowers industrial organizations with comprehensive OT security by delivering reliable, scalable and easy-to-deploy network visibility solutions. As the convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) introduces new cybersecurity challenges, including increased vulnerabilities and network blind spots, Garland Technology ensures that critical infrastructure remains protected.

With its TAP to Tool™ philosophy, the company provides seamless packet visibility, enabling security and monitoring tools to perform at their highest potential without interference. From network TAPs and packet brokers to cloud visibility solutions, Garland Technology helps OT teams eliminate blind spots, prevent downtime and enhance cybersecurity across aging and modernized industrial environments alike.


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Network TAP

A Network TAP (Test Access Point) is a hardware device designed to make a full duplex copy of 100% of the network data traversing a link, with no impact on the production network. TAPs provide the complete packet level visibility that high-performance monitoring and security solutions require.

Network TAP Network TAP

Benefits: 

  • TAPs deliver 100% of the network traffic, ensuring zero dropped packets.
  • 100% secure and invisible to the network.
  • Eliminate network blind spots.
  • Many of Garland's TAPs also have built-in data diode functionality, ensuring unidirectional traffic flow and eliminating the risk of packet injection.
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Network Packet Broker

A Network Packet Broker (NPB) is a purpose-built hardware device designed to ingest multiple feeds from Network TAPs and/or SPAN/Mirror ports. The NPB then grooms the traffic through filtering, aggregation, load balancing, preparing it to be sent to one or many security and monitoring tools for analysis. NPBs are also capable of more advanced features such as deduplication, packet slicing, time stamping, etc. ensuring that each connected tool receives the correct traffic for optimal performance.

Network Packet Broker Network Packet Broker

Benefits: 

  • Aggregate multiple TAP and SPAN feeds for increased port utilization.
  • Improve the performance of security and monitoring tools.
  • Garland's NPBs do not have any licenses or subscriptions for port availability or functionality.
  • Utilize existing tool investments during a network upgrade.
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Hardware Data Diode

A Hardware Data Diode creates an exact copy of packets on the network link, continuously, 24/7/365, and does not drop packets, introduce delay, or alter the data. A Hardware Data Diode offers the same high-quality visibility as Network TAPS, with the added security that the copy of traffic is one-way and prevents packet injection back into the network. They are either passive or "failsafe" in design, meaning traffic continues to flow between network devices if power is lost or a monitoring tool is removed, ensuring the Hardware Data Diode isn't a single point of failure.

Hardware Data Diode Hardware Data Diode

Benefits: 

  • Hardware based solution that enforces unidirectional traffic flow.
  • Eliminates software and policy configuration errors.
  • Cannot be affected by DDoS attacks.
  • Provide compliance with NERC-CIP regulations by protecting the SPAN/Mirror port.
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EdgeLens Inline Security Packet Broker

Garland's innovative EdgeLens is a bypass TAP and network packet broker hybrid, purpose-built to give you the power of a bypass TAP to manage the availability of inline tools, instrument high availability (HA) deployments, and tool chaining, as well as NPB ports for out-of-band monitoring tools. The EdgeLens allows you to sandbox new tool deployments, manage updates without waiting for scheduled downtime, install patches, perform maintenance or troubleshooting and validate tool configurations without impacting the network. 

EdgeLens Inline Security Packet Broker EdgeLens Inline Security Packet Broker

Benefits:

  • Inline bypass allows for the sandbox, deployment and troubleshooting of active inline tools without taking the network link down.
  • In the event an inline device becomes unavailable, the bypass TAP will bypass the inline tool and traffic is automatically forwarded around the failed or offline tool.
  • Chaining up to 3 inline security tools.
  • Before and after: allows for historical lookback.
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Aggregator

Aggregators consolidate multiple SPAN input and/or network links down to a smaller, manageable number of ports. There are several types of Aggregators. An Aggregation TAP is also ideal when a connected tool has a single network interface card (NIC) or you want to send copied traffic to two (2) tools. A SPAN Aggregator can aggregate copies of traffic from multiple SPAN Mirror Ports and send to a tool with a single input port. A TAP Aggregator can aggregate copies of traffic from multiple tapped links and send to a tool with a single input port. All are easy to install and configure for simple port/link aggregation.

Aggregator Aggregator

Benefits: 

  • Eliminate network complexity.  
  • Optimize security and monitoring tool performance and improve ROI.  
  • Reduce the ports utilized on an existing packet broker (potential cost savings if maintenance renewal on the packet broker is tied to port utilization). 
  • Centralize network security sensors to protect the more of the network by spending less budget.
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Fly-away Kit TAPs and Packet Brokers

Garland Technology engineers and manufacturers TAPs and Packet Brokers specifically for FAK with hardware that is portable, lightweight, and consumes minimal power. Garland Technology’s flexible and modular product line is ideal for FAKs. Garland engineers Fly-away kit solutions that are durable, have depth less than 13", and meet TSA carry-on requirements. These product allow on site operators to connect to a network, even a SPAN port, copy the needed packets, and send to compatible monitoring and cybersecurity tools inside FAK.

Fly-away Kit TAPs and Packet Brokers Fly-away Kit TAPs and Packet Brokers

Benefits: 

  • TAP the wire (and even SPAN ports) to collect as much data as possible in a short amount of time when in the field and broker the copies to tools inside the kit using a Network Packet Broker. 
  • Garland Technology’s TAPs and Packet Brokers are compatible with monitoring and cybersecurity tools inside a kit. 
  • Garland Technology’s TAPs and Packet Brokers with different media ports make connecting to any network possible and simple. 
  • No additional equipment or extensive training is needed to get Garland Technology’s TAPs and Packet Brokers up and running in a kit. 

 

Garland's Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Proactively detect threats with full traffic visibility
  • Meet industry regulations
  • Maintain operational resilience in an increasingly connected world