Today’s network-dependent organizations face an array of cyber threats. Information and its critical role manifest in many different ways and formats, and are subject to countless outlets for distribution and sharing. With every challenge emerges new opportunities for malicious actors to insert themselves into the chaos.
An ever-growing mixture arises among traditional cyber-crime, economic and military espionage, and the shadowy concepts of cyber network discord. While modern organizations wait to assess the use of innovative technologies, cyber criminals are using technological innovation to their advantage. They exploit the gap between how quickly they can profit from vulnerabilities and the speed at which organizations deploy advanced technologies to counter the threat.
Dynamic Network Visibility Foundation of Cyber-Attack Detection and Remediation
The major challenge identifying malware and anomalous activity inside networks is effective visibility across the entire network and all the critical traffic flows within. Since attackers can use every network segment and over potentially long periods of time, effective visibility means continuous access to the vast amounts of traffic flows and metadata across every corner of the network.
Niagara Networks delivers just that. It starts with Niagara’s N2 Packet Broker and the ability to aggregate traffic flows via a family of high-density network TAPs and nodes that can then deliver copies of that traffic to network security devices.
Niagara Networks N2 Packet Broker series provide a scalable solution that ensures network visibility into 1, 10, 40 and 100Gb critical network links and can provide access to the appropriate network traffic for identification of opportunistic infections, risky behavior and insider attacks, and advanced or targeted attacks.
The Network TAP ports of the Niagara N2 connect to each side of one or multiple bi-directional network links and transparently pass network traffic while ensuring network uptime in case of any power failure, link loss or software crash via fail-to-wire protection. The Packet Broker ports provide the ability to load balance, aggregate, filter and/or mirror the tapped network traffic to one or multiple in-line security solutions.