Eliminate tool risk—and single points of failure.
Modern inline security tools create a powerful front line of defense against cyberthreats but each tools another single point of failure. Deploy visibility with your inline security tools to avoid risk related to maintaining tools – regular rebooting, maintenance, upgrades – and outages to keep from tools bringing down links and disrupting business continuity.
Bypass threats—and inefficiencies
Use bypass switches as failsafe mechanisms for inline network devices to redirect traffic—and uptime — during maintenance, service disruptions, and network outages. Bypass switches mirror network traffic — sending packets directly to monitoring tools or to network packet brokers for de-duplication and distribution.
Maintain network availability during upgrades.
Security monitoring shouldn’t interfere with network response times – so take action before that occurs. Deploy external bypass in front of security tools to separate them from the flow of live traffic so you can perform tool upgrades, maintenance and other operations without having to wait for a scheduled maintenance window.
Extend the value of inline tools to faster networks
Why pay for premature upgrades when existing tools have unused capacity? Deploy a resilient visibility architecture to upgrade network interface speeds without having to upgrade inline security solutions.
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