INTELLIGENT VISIBILITY

Visibility powered by a multi-layer security fabric improves enterprise network monitoring performance.

Intelligent network visibility allows IT to strengthen network security, reduce monitoring costs, increase return on investment (ROI), and optimize network performance. Keysight offers the widest range of network taps, virtual network taps, and intelligent network packet brokers (NPBs) that allow you to:

REMOVE BLIND SPOTS AND IMPROVE NETWORK MONITORING

Blind spots occur when data is lost on its way to the monitoring and compliance tools or also when security incident data has become buried. Blind spots can occur because of overloaded SPAN ports, not using a Network Packet Broker (NPB) properly sized for your network, or lack of connectivity for tools like DLPs, SIEMs, logging tools, protocol analyzers, etc. It is very common for these blind spots to contribute to network outages, performance issues, security breaches, and compliance problems. The easiest and best answer to solving the problem is to implement a scalable visibility architecture with the industry’s most reliable Taps and highest performing NPBs.

Learn more about how Keysight Network Taps and NPB solutions eliminate blind spots in your network.

CONTEXT AWARENESS SUPERCHARGES NETWORK MONITORING PERFORMANCE

Context awareness is a powerful capability to improve network operations. Context-aware data processing allows the right data to be distributed the right tools through data deduplication, packet trimming, burst protection, and especially application level filtering. These combined features help expose indicators of compromise, identify geolocation of users and devices, and improve troubleshooting efforts.

EXTEND THE LIFE OF EXISTING MONITORING TOOL INVESTMENTS

Modern enterprise networks typically have several problems when it comes to getting the most value out of their monitoring tools. A visibility solution provides capabilities for clear cost reductions by eliminating various issues like:

  • Access to the proper data
  • Reducing the need to constantly add new monitoring tools
  • Ensuring monitoring tool capabilities match the network security

An intelligent visibility framework helps every monitoring tool see more and focus in on the data that matters most to you.

Learn more about how Keysight can help you extend the life of your monitoring tools:

White Papers 2020.06.01

Fast Breach Mitigation Without Network Disruption

Fast Breach Mitigation Without Network Disruption

A recent report from Verizon revealed that nearly 68% of breaches happen over the course of several days. Ponemon Institute indicates that it is now taking longer to resolve these attacks, averaging 46 days, an increase of 30% over the last six year period in the time required to resolve it. With events like this unfolding with growing frequency, your ability to quickly mitigate a crisis begins with knowing where it occurred, and what data was compromised. This insightful white paper, Fast Breach Mitigation Without Network Disruption, examines how to capture the critical data you need, to respond more rapidly to emerging situations.

2020.06.01

Solution Briefs 2017.08.04

Get More Value from Security and Monitoring Tools

Get More Value from Security and Monitoring Tools

In this timely and insightful solution brief, the team at Ixia gives you a relative overview of the issues at play. In it, you’ll learn how you can increase the value of out-of-band and inline tools, what role do visibility architectures play, and how to allow for immediate inline and out-of-band access points to check for intrusions.

2017.08.04

MAXIMIZE NETWORK PERFORMANCE TO SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE

IT security and analytics tools are only as good as the data they are seeing. Performance matters — don't settle for partial visibility due to dropped packets within your solution. Your tools need complete visibility to properly monitor the network.

In addition, proactive monitoring lets you perform real testing of your network to validate network/application performance and measure SLAs whenever you need to.

Learn more about how Keysight can help you see what you have been missing and maximize network performance:

Visibility Enhances Regulatory Compliance

Better network visibility and control of data allows enterprises to enhance regulatory compliance. This includes PCI DSS, HIPAA, lawful intercept, and various other compliance initiatives. The key is to capture the proper data, segment it out, and then deliver it to the proper location.

Learn more about how Keysight can help you enhance regulatory compliance:

White Papers 2020.06.02

Visibility Architecture – Eliminating Visibility and Security Blind Spots

Visibility Architecture – Eliminating Visibility and Security Blind Spots

According to ZK Research, 85% of the mean time to repair (MTTR) is the time taken to identify there is in fact, an issue. If your IT department cannot quickly identify problems, chances are they will constantly hear about issues from unhappy customers. And once the MTTR clock starts ticking, there’s no telling whether IT knows there is an issue or not. If you’re trying to ensure your networks are fast, reliable and secure through approaches that attempt to manage each aspect of their performance—from Network Ops, Application Ops, Security Admins, Server Admins, Forensics, and Privacy and Audit teams—chances are that each of these teams purchased their own set of analytics or monitoring tools. For many, these solutions have not solved the problem, leaving unidentified blind spots that remain a looming threat. In this insightful white paper, Visibility Architecture: Eliminating Visibility and Security Blind Spots, you’ll learn about a once-in-a-generation change that’s creating a shift to public and private cloud computing, virtualized networking, and the growing number of connected devices are structurally changing IT. What you will learn: First, what are the components of good visibility and security? Second, how a visibility architecture can give you 100% ROI, with vastly improved problem identification, isolation, and repair times. Third, how you can effectively comport with many compliance mandates. Fourth, achieve end-to-end visibility for both physical and virtual networks. Fifth, don’t wait for disjointed approaches to security and visibility to create an unforeseen problem. Read this white paper to get the insights you need to make better decisions.

2020.06.02

White Papers 2020.05.24

Five Ways Application Intelligence Will Supercharge Your Monitoring Tools

Five Ways Application Intelligence Will Supercharge Your Monitoring Tools

In regards to network visibility, it's not just about using the right monitoring tool for the right job. Delivering the right information to the right tool, is even more important. Application information is critical to network visibility and monitoring efforts. This includes the ability to remove blind spots, see indicators of compromise, and maximize troubleshooting efforts to improve your network mean time to repair. Read this whitepaper to see how you can: filter data based upon specific applications, spot indicators of compromise, improve your security tool (DLP, IDS, etc.) analysis, and improve your troubleshooting efforts.

2020.05.24

Case Studies 2019.04.18

Reduce MTTR and Strengthen PCI Compliance

Reduce MTTR and Strengthen PCI Compliance

A large North American pharmacy invested in a visibility architecture. Read this case study to see how they cut their MTTR for network issues by 75%, improved their PCI compliance with packet slicing, and lowered their overall monitoring tool costs.

2019.04.18

Reduce Your Network Downtime And Mean Time To Repair

During breaches and outages, minutes matter. This is where a visibility architecture can reduce network downtime. Once a tap and network packet broker (NPB) are inserted into the network you can drastically reduce Change Board approvals and the use of Crash Carts for troubleshooting. Your processes and capabilities will be faster than before, especially when remote access capability is deployed.

Learn more about how Keysight delivers the solution you need to reduce downtime:

Tap Into Your Data Where And When You Need It

Network visibility starts with capturing the proper data from physical and virtual networks (both public and private) to enable a deeper, richer understanding of your network.

The data you may need can come from anywhere within your network. Deploy the physical and virtual taps you need, where you need to get that data. This gives your monitoring solution the right data so it can be delivered to the right tool when needed.

Keysight is the number one vendor in the network taps market. Learn more how Keysight can help you tap your network:

White Papers 2020.05.25

Top Six Considerations When Purchasing Network Taps

Top Six Considerations When Purchasing Network Taps

Download the white paper to ensure you have the best technology and value for your deployment by understanding the key differences in network taps. Network visibility and data access to your traffic ensure that your network runs efficiently. A network tap (Test Access Port) is an inexpensive and permanent access port used throughout the network to enable monitoring and analysis without interrupting data transmission. There are many benefits for choosing a network tap solution instead of diverting data with a port connection on a switch. With so many network taps available on the market, choosing the right tap provides significant savings. For example, did you know that signal loss and degradation may result in thousands spent for additional cable roll-outs in data centers? Ensure you have the best technology and value for your deployment by understanding the key differences in network taps.

2020.05.25

White Papers 2020.05.25

Best Practices for Visibility Architecture Tap Planning

Best Practices for Visibility Architecture Tap Planning

When it comes to data monitoring, ensuring proper access to network data is one of the most critical things you can do. Missing and incorrect data will slow down the analysis of problems by your security monitoring and tools. It may also lead to false conclusions by those tools. In turn, this can lead to missed security threats, false positives for security threats and network impairments, and higher costs. This white paper is designed to be a generic guide to help assist in the optimization process of your visibility architecture so that you can collect better data at the start of your monitoring architecture. An overview of the differences between taps and SPANs, virtual taps, and different types of tap solutions including bypass switches is provided along with three examples and recommendations for best practices.

2020.05.25

Case Studies 2017.06.13

Service Provider Saves $200K and Delivers Regulatory Compliance

Service Provider Saves $200K and Delivers Regulatory Compliance

A European service provider was looking for a visibility solution to make its applications stronger, improve customer quality of service, and enable the delivery of lawful intercept information for regulatory compliance. Learn how Ixia helped extend the lifespan of their tools and save $200,000 with better network monitoring.

2017.06.13

Case Studies 2017.08.07

Financial Company Reduces Costs $680K While Improving Security

Financial Company Reduces Costs $680K While Improving Security

A leading financial institution based in the Middle East needed to make their inline security capabilities stronger while controlling costs. The solution was to implement the Ixia Security Fabric™ as part of a visibility architecture which allowed the customer to reduce their high availability solution costs by $680,000.

2017.08.07

Infographics 2017.08.07

Five Ways to Maximize Security and Monitoring Tool Value

Five Ways to Maximize Security and Monitoring Tool Value

This informative infographic, 5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools, provides a quick overview on how to extend the life of your existing security and monitoring tools.

2017.08.07

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