Best Practices for Applying Visibility Technology to Inline and Out-of-Band Security

Network visibility solutions are essential to security technologies that analyze network traffic. These solutions, including terminal access points (TAPs), bypass switches, and network packet brokers (NPBs), are foundational to ensuring that security solutions can reliably protect the enterprise without impacting service availability and performance. Typically, enterprises require two kinds of visibility technologies for security: one for inline appliance connectivity and another for mirroring traffic data to passive analysis tools. This paper explores how enterprises use network visibility technologies for both inline and out-of-band security use cases to support security solutions.