McAfee
Mitigating the Risks of Network Downtime
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Deployment and management of the McAfee® Network SecurityPlatform NG-IPS
In today’s aggressive cyberthreat environment, it’s a necessity to deploy and manage in-line security devices while maintaining network uptime
for scheduled or unscheduled downtime. By deploying your active, inline McAfee® Network Security Platform NG-IPS with a Garland bypass
network TAP, you mitigate the risks of network downtime as well as secure your organization from external threats. By incorporating a hybrid bypass TAP with packet broker functionality, your NG-IPS can be managed with up to three other active, in-line tools for load balancing and advance chaining functionality.
Garland Bypass Network TAPs Resolves Network Downtime
In normal operation, all network traffic passes unimpeded through the bypass TAP and into the in-line NG-IPS device. Should the NG-IPS lose power or need to be taken offline for scheduled maintenance, the TAP will “bypass” the NG-IPS and keep traffic flowing through the device and
network. When the NG-IPS comes back online, the TAP will automatically redirect traffic through the device transparent to the network. If the TAP should lose power, it will fail-safe (bypass) without impacting network.
Installation of a bypass TAP provides fail-safe protection for your NG-IPS. In a high availability scenario, when the primary link goes down, traffic can automatically be forced to the secondary link. The solution also manages up to two active, in-line security tools.
Advanced Load Balancing
Traffic comes in from the 10G link between a router and a switch and is copied to two out-of-band solutions, a forensics application and wireshark. The traffic is then load balanced across four separate 1G McAfee Network Security Platform appliances.
Chaining
About McAfee
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