Network Visibility and Cyber Security
Imagine you buy a brand new Bugatti and plan to travel across the beautiful landscape of the European shores, enjoy the stunning view and the fresh air, but suddenly, you find out that some of the best roads are blocked and you are going to miss some of the best views. What a disappointment! At […]
The 5 Hidden Costs of Cyber Security that You Should Avoid
It is common wisdom that Cyber Security and Monitoring applications that analyze network traffic must have full network visibility to avoid ‘blind spots’ that may be the source of a cyber security attack. In a previous post named Network Visibility and Cyber Security, we explained why the industry is shifting from SPAN/Mirror ports towards Network […]
Distributed Packet Broker
The packet broker industry is going through a major paradigm shift after being stagnant for quite some time. Packet broker vendors have taken the approach of developing their own hardware appliances with their software on top of it to provide the aggregation and filtering of network traffic that feeds cyber security and NPM tools. The […]
Need to Reduce Packet Broker Costs?
The answer is obviously “YES”, because Network Packet Brokers (NPB) have become a mandatory component of network infrastructure, and the cost of packet broker projects range from dozens of thousands to millions of USD, depending on the scope of the deployment. Packet Brokers help avoid network ‘blind spots’ that could be the source of cyber […]
Choosing Cisco Tail-f’s Conf-D as CGS’s NPB management engine
When started to design our NPB product line, which is based on Top-Of-Rack switch platforms, one of the first questions we had to tackle, was how to select the best management framework. As a startup company whose core expertise is in packet broker software development and with time to market being a crucial factor, we […]
Network Visibility or Network Bottleneck?
The role of the network visibility layer is to solve the ‘blind spot’ and network congestion challenges that have a negative impact on cyber security and network performance management tools. It is achieved by deploying network TAPs across the network and network packet brokers (NPB) that aggregate, filter and redirect traffic from the network to […]
Overcoming Packet Broker Limitations
Cyber Security applications are often overutilized with irrelevant traffic to the point where they cannot get the job done, placing the enterprise at risk. Here are three examples for such scenarios: The first example is in the case of duplicated packets that are collected from TAPs and SPAN ports that do not add any value […]
The Smallest Packet Broker in the Market
Network Packet Brokers, or NPB in short, have become a mandatory part of the network infrastructure, enabling network visibility and solving multiple critical issues for cyber security and network performance management tools that need to analyse network traffic. The challenge is that legacy packet brokers where designed on proprietary hardware with limited performance and high […]