With a variety of security threats to address, including DoS attacks, Trojans, user-initialized incidents, hackers, etc., every business must lock down the network without error. Failure to do so can result in lost sales, lost customers, internal IT emergencies, and possibly even litigation. In all, the potential cost of all of these impacts can total millions of dollars per incident.
With so many tools of different types competing for limited available SPANs and TAPs, Security and Network Operations teams often find themselves at contention for network access. Since both teams have important monitoring needs, companies are forced to make tradeoffs between full network coverage and access. In essence, they have too many links to monitor and not enough tools and access points to do so. In fact, 46% of network operations and security professionals report that they lack the desired visibility into the network due to a lack of network access points (SPANs and Taps).
The Anue 5200 Series Net Tool Optimizer corrects problems associated with having too many tools and too few access points. By aggregating SPANs and TAPs to a centralized tool farm and applying advanced filtering techniques based on level 2-4 criteria, the Net Tool Optimizer feeds each tool the traffic it needs, and only the traffic it needs to do its job.

Share SPAN ports and TAPs
Maximize visibility into your network
Reducing monitoring tool cost
Eliminate contention over network access points
Establish the highest level of security possible in your data center
Visit the Anue Eye on Security center to read more about security itself, and to sign up for a training webinar.