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Provide Visibility and Secure Blind Spots With SSL Decryption

When trying to support network continuity, mitigating the risk of scheduled or unscheduled downtime is an issue for any operation. The need for a secure layer to identify and actively block hidden threats can be difficult and costly, especially while also keeping your network resilient. Deploying inline appliances on mission-critical network segments requires active-passive flows to decrypt data for network security.

A10 Networks has partnered with Garland Technology to provide an inline security layer without compromising network uptime. A10 Networks Thunder SSLi eliminates blind spots within your network for efficiency within your security device. Garland Technology’s Inline Edge Security solutions, which provides bypass technology mirrors the SSL decrypted traffic from A10 Networks to application performance monitoring tools, adding seamless SSL decryption to necessary workflows.

Simple Inline Bypass

For a single source deployment, traffic is sent from the router through the A10 Networks’ Thunder SSLi CFW 5840 for data decryption. The decrypted traffic is directed back to the Garland Technology EdgeSafe™ Network Bypass TAP, exiting the daisy-chained network port to the next bypass segment.

Once the network data is sent through the DPI and into a second network port, the traffic travels through the second A10 device for re-encryption. The simplicity of this connection allows a single point of decryption throughout the network to eliminate blind spots, ensuring compliance and privacy.

Seamless Integration Within Multiple Networks

When deploying in multiple networks, traffic from each network link is brought into the Edgelens® inline security packet broker and VLAN tagged. Once tagged, the traffic is aggregated and load-balanced through the two A10 Thunder SSLi devices. The data is decrypted and routed to the DPI appliances in reverse order back to the A10 devices for re-encryption. This seamless integration throughout your infrastructure allows comprehensive, real-time and actionable insights with application-level visibility.

The joint solution provides visibility to all security devices, including inline, out-of-band and ICAP- enabled devices. Together, A10 Networks and Garland Technology detect advanced threats with low impact and load-balance to distribute traffic across multiple networks.

Garland Technology Network TAPs and Packet Brokers

Garland Technology provides a full platform of network access products including a range of network TAPs and Network Packet Broker devices, supporting the entire wire spectrum from 10/100M copper to 1G/10G/40G/100G.

Key Capabilities

• Complete network visibility by passing all live wire data
• Ensure no dropped packets for out-of-band tools
• Quality standard, all TAPs are tested with live network data and validated
• 100% failsafe packet capture – all network TAPs are tested and validated, and have built-in failsafe and/or heartbeat technology
• Reliable traffic aggregation, load balancing, and filtering – full control over traffic behavior and flexibility for aggregation and regeneration

A10 Networks Thunder SSLi CFW

A10 Networks believes the future of cyber security for 5G and multi-cloud rests on Intelligent Automation coupled with machine learning, ensuring that business critical applications are protected, reliable, and always available.

Key Capabilities

• Delivers the performance, scalability, and agility for the largest multi-cloud and 4G/5G networks
• Leverage built-in connected intelligence and analytics for smarter protection throughout your mission critical network
• Use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to protect against threats, today and in the future
• With automation and open API’s, seamlessly strengthen your security posture while optimizing IT resources

About A10 Networks

A10 Networks provides Reliable Security Always™, with a range of high-performance application networking solutions that help organizations ensure that their data center applications and networks remain highly available, accelerated and secure. Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif., and serves customers globally with offices worldwide. For more information, visit: www.a10networks.com and @A10Networks.

This blog was originally published on Garland Technology’s website.  It has been used here with permission from the provider.

Garland Technology recently partnered with ExtraHop, a leader in real-time IT Analytics, which gives IT Operations, Network, and Security teams comprehensive visibility across everything from network performance to website user experience.

The Garland and ExtraHop platform partnership provides 100% network visibility with an end-to-end infrastructure that eliminates network blind spots. Garland’s network TAPs and packet brokers tap at the live wire for 100% packet capture. By securing the data at the physical layer through reliable network TAPs, the ExtraHop platform provides real-time application visibility to monitor, protect, block, and analyze traffic in real time, all the time.

Implement a Scalable and Reliable Data Monitoring Solution

Scalable network TAPs and packet brokers enable future network growth, from 1G/10G today to 25G/40G/100G tomorrow, with the most reliable data capture available. Purpose-built network packet brokers filter, aggregate, and load balance to one or many monitoring ports.

Real-time Data Capture Starts with the Foundation of Visibility

Upon receiving a copy of network traffic from Garland, the stream processor performs line-rate decryption, protocol decoding, and full-stream reassembly for every transaction, up to a sustained 40 Gbps. The result: Customers get deeper and more meaningful insight at a fraction of the cost compared to other real-time analytics solutions.

This solution delivers data-driven, real-time application (L2-L7) network monitoring and security solutions based on wire data, and guarantee no dropped or distorted packets as well as accurate relationships of frames, spacing, and response times with Garland’s passive fiber TAPs and network packet brokers.

This blog was originally published on Garland Technology’s website.  It has been used here with permission from the provider.

Zero Trust has become a widely adopted cybersecurity strategy, and organizations are learning to operate under the assumption that no user, endpoint, workload, application or content can be trusted within their networks, no matter what’s been previously checked or what will be checked later on. In other words, each device, application and microservice must be responsible for its own security.

There’s a learning curve, however, to understanding how to apply that principle throughout your infrastructure. In the case of cloud native technologies, infrastructure and development processes often don’t look the same as in traditional environments. The way we apply Zero Trust must shift as well. In constantly changing cloud environments, Zero Trust microsegmentation is a technique that can help enforce cloud security policies that follow Zero Trust best practices.

Developers and DevOps teams continue to use cloud native technologies like microservices and containers to scale development and speed up releases, along with multi-cloud architectures to optimize efficiency. However, it’s these same core components of cloud native development that are causing fundamental shifts in the way network security policies are administered in the cloud. Zero Trust microsegmentation can help solve issues where environments are constantly changing and the IP addresses that were traditionally used for managing and defining security policies are no longer sufficient.

Why Cloud Security Policies Can’t Be Based on IP Addresses

Cloud native development can present a challenge to traditional enterprise policies, partially due to the nature of constant change within the environments. Cloud workloads move across locations, and instances within an application can scale dynamically as demands fluctuate and containers come and go in seconds – making validation a serious concern.

In these environments, the IP-based security that many enterprises are used to can quickly become unmanageable. Hybrid and multi-cloud environments introduce shifting IP domains as containerized workloads can be replicated, rescheduled and rehosted within the scope of an hour. And microservices are exposed through APIs accessible via HTTP/gRPC, making IP address irrelevant. In order to achieve end-to-end visibility, administrators would have to stitch together IP flows across the multitude of environments, which becomes unworkable at scale.

Because IP addresses are no longer as persistent as they once were, they cannot be relied upon to accurately identify workloads in the cloud, thereby making them unusable for security policies following Zero Trust best practices.

Identity-Based Microsegmentation

Identity-Based Microsegmentation in Prisma Cloud gives users the ability to base security policies on strong, machine-generated identity for individual workloads instead of broad IP addresses. This makes it possible to track a workload as it moves through your environment, even if IP addresses and other traditional identifiers change. Development risk posture is improved while managing the needs of dynamic cloud native environments.

Once workload identities are assigned, Prisma Cloud can automatically discover and learn application communication behaviors inside and across clouds. These flows can then be monitored in real time using a visualized map of the network.

Users can set policies to authenticate and authorize connection requests among these generated identities, and they can automatically deny unknown requests. Compliance teams, for example, can create policies to isolate systems that may be subject to specific regulations.

Microsegmentation for Zero Trust

Microsegmentation gives organizations a way to implement Zero Trust best practices for cloud native application development. A trusted identity can be used for security policy enforcement while allowing the seamless use of technology like containers and microservices. You can learn more in our e-book, “Identity-Powered Microsegmentation with Prisma Cloud.”

Microsegmentation is just one aspect of an enterprise Zero Trust strategy. Watch as Palo Alto Networks Founder and CTO Nir Zuk explains how it all fits together. And be sure to check out the rest of the blogs in our Zero Trust series.

This blog was originally published on Palo Alto’s website.  It has been used here with permission from the provider.

Discover how networks have evolved from 4G LTE to 5G Plus, and exactly what that means for the future of wireless communications in enterprise environments.

‍Check out Episode 1 of Office Hours to get answers to questions like:

• How has the 5G standard evolved over time?
• How can private enterprises benefit from 5G NR-U?
• What is the biggest difference between 5G and 5G Plus?
• What are the most significant differences between public and private LTE networks?

Key Takeaways

• 5G takes advantage of two frequency ranges to provide 5G and 5G plus. While there are many different variations of 5G, the overall technology is a large leap forward.
• Private enterprises will be able to use 5G NR-U to deploy networks for IoT, driverless vehicles, and dozens of other widespread applications.
• Private LTE networks give companies granular control over their networks, base stations, and geographic coverage.
• 5G brings improved data rates, increased reliability, and significantly lower latency than the current 4G standard.

Wireless strategies for business continuity gain importance as enterprise expand IoT, cloud, and other technologies

Our evolving world has seen uninterrupted connectivity become a business requirement. With cloud services, IoT devices, and increasing mobility putting a strain on wired network architecture, more organizations are looking to adopt a wireless wide-area network (WAN) to keep a competitive edge.

An enterprise needs to be proactive about network failover. It is no longer enough to solely rely on wired lines for backup connectivity and redundancy. Today availability, reliability, and bandwidth are the three mandatory capabilities for any network failover solution.

Network Availability

Historically, enterprises added multiple wired connections for network failover. This might seem like a good way to ensure internet uptime, but it doesn’t always provide the guaranteed connectivity that organizations now require.

When adding a failover wired connection to a fixed location, typically the new secondary link enters the facility through the same trench as the primary connection. The enterprise is putting itself at risk of network interruption due to accidents during construction or other maintenance.

Another option is to install a new wire through a different entrance, but that costs time and money that enterprises often can ill afford. A more effective and economical solution is a high-performance wireless failover connection. This ensures diversity by providing a secondary connection that can’t be physically interrupted.

Network Reliability

When network service is interrupted, reliable management access is required to securely diagnose and fix any problems. To alleviate the need for an onsite IT team, Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Service and endpoints enable Out-of-Band Management (OOBM) so IT teams can troubleshoot issues remotely. Having a direct connection from an LTE adapter’s console port to the primary router at a branch location enables network managers to diagnose and sometimes fix problems even if the wired link is not available.

Life Storage, with hundreds of self-storage locations across the U.S., struggled with reliable connectivity. Its third-party-managed, USB-based modems could not handle the growing number of connected devices that helped drive business. After deploying Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Service and branch routers, Life Storage’s IT team has been able to remotely control all devices and connections.

Network Bandwidth

Even when a network failover link kicks in, businesses still require sufficient bandwidth to support the transfer of all required company data. With an all-in-one branch networking solution, you can switch between a wired and wireless connections without degrading bandwidth, ensuring business continuity.

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) technologies support bandwidth aggregation and traffic segregation between both wired and wireless WAN links. With lower-bandwidth LTE connections, SD-WAN allows IT teams to set configurations that ensure critical data always has precedence on the wireless failover link. With higher-bandwidth Gigabit-Class LTE and 5G connections, all traffic can continue to flow over the backup link.

Wireless failover allows businesses in any industry to never skip a beat.

Learn more about wireless strategies for addressing enterprise networking challenges from Cradlepoint’s WANs Without Wires white paper.