Garland Technology
With a deep understanding of the unique challenges and requirements typical of OT environments, Garland provides the industry’s most reliable Network TAP, Data Diode, and Network Packet Brokers. Garland’s visibility products are developed to ensure OT security solutions receive the packet-level visibility necessary for a properly secured network.
Critical infrastructure is in Garland’s DNA. CTO and Co-Founder Jerry Dillard started his career over 35 years ago developing instruments for fighter jets, including work for defense companies General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin. CEO and Co-Founder Chris Bihary started in IT over 25 years ago building out 9-1-1 call center network infrastructures, ensuring everything was implemented in a way that was fault tolerant, had redundancy and was available 100% of the time. “For us, whether it’s 9-1-1 facilities, fighter jets, a power facility or water processing plant, we always take the approach that everything we do is absolutely critical and crucial to a company’s success,” states Chris Bihary.
OT Security Success Begins with Complete Visibility
Protecting your network is the ultimate goal. To accomplish this goal, teams utilize ICS security solutions to properly identify, detect, and respond to security threats and breaches with threat detection and asset visibility management. All of these tools rely on network data to successfully protect the company. Providing complete packet level visibility to these tools has become a very important step in the architecture.
A common access point for network visibility in OT environments has been from the SPAN port on a network switch, which mirrors the traffic from the switch. If available, an engineer will often connect intrusion detection systems (IDS) or network monitoring tools directly to the SPAN. In modern ICS networks there is a more reliable option to guarantee 100% complete network packets for security and monitoring solutions to properly analyze threats and anomalies – network TAPs (test access point). As SPAN ports are known to drop packets, create duplicate packets and even introduce bidirectional traffic, network TAPs are a better option. SPAN wasn’t developed for continuous monitoring and is not the foundation we encourage for OT networks.
Packet Visibility Designed for Unique Environments
Many Network TAP vendors offer products designed for IT architectures with ICS teams trying to incorporate these as they can. Garland Technology has spent years working with OT customers and government agencies to design specialized network TAPs to work in their unique environments and requirements, providing small rugged metal form factors, environmentally and temperature resistant, including unidirectional data diode design to protect and aggregate TAP and SPAN traffic.
Garland Technology takes these environmental challenges seriously, as we understand what’s at stake. Having worked alongside government agencies for both critical infrastructure and military projects, Garland Technology understands that both industries rely on complete packet visibility.
Garland has also pioneered TAP visibility for extreme temperatures, with Copper OT Network TAPs that provide 100% full duplex traffic visibility and are engineered for temperature variations between -40C and +85C up to -40F and +185F, well beyond standard TAP options.
That’s why, along with rugged steel products and high quality standards, industrial teams turn to Garland Technology to ensure their security and monitoring solutions are able to see every bit, byte, and packet, even in the most extreme environments.
Following critical infrastructure’s guiding principles — you want your network to be built to last, while ensuring minimal to no network downtime. These concepts rest on solid network infrastructure and visibility architecture. Garland Technology’s mission is to help you achieve your goals by ensuring complete visibility for your OT Security solution.