The Holidays, like new IT & OT network projects, requires planning to ensure all stakeholders are happy. But often, things don’t as planned. This blog discusses common snags the Garland engineering team hears from customers in the field and highlights potential solutions.
Intro
Maximizing the merriment in December requires Santa-like scheduling superpowers. There are friends and family to visit, gifts to buy, cookies to bake, and Hallmark movies to binge.
Likely, there’s also a holiday sweater to dig out and dust off to flaunt your festive self. But, it’s hard to eat, drink, and be merry when you spot a snag or two slowly unraveling your favorite snowman sweater.
Regardless of the level of merrymaking on your calendar, you still have that day job to look after: managing your company’s IT and / or OT network. And, if you’re like me, you’ll take a sweater snag over a snag in a new network deployment every single time. Those little unplanned surprises can get costly quickly.
Sound familiar?
Have you recently deployed a new NDR, IDS, SIEM, or OT security sensor on your network?
Do any of these snags sound familiar?
- The newly installed tool or sensor - receiving mirrored packets off a SPAN port on a switch - is underperforming because it isn’t seeing all of the network traffic
- You’re surprised by a previously unknown network requirement, such as network speeds, cable types, the quantity of links, or other tools connected to the network.
- You encounter a problematic network switch and it’s impossible to install the new out-of-band tool in your network using that switch.
- You are nervous your SPAN mirroring ports are bi-directional...Read More!
