Pervasive Security Visibility

A Network Packet Broker (NPB) is an indispensable technology in our fast-paced IT world, ensuring network traffic is accessed, analyzed, and efficiently managed. NETSCOUT, as your preferred network packet broker vendor, uses advanced monitoring tools to filter and direct traffic information from network links to the relevant network monitoring tool. This process enhances both the security and reliability of your services and applications, allowing them to adapt effectively in a dynamic IT environment.

Security Tool “Sprawl”—Your New Nightmare

The cyber threat landscape is evolving, and so are the network security solutions designed to address it. More tools mean more security, right? Not necessarily. The resulting tool sprawl places new demands on security and network operations. The challenges are especially acute when it comes to active (inline) security systems that are designed to act on live network traffic. Every change or upgrade means a potential network disruption. Trying to deal with this sprawl can be a true IT nightmare.

The Urgent Need for Security Visibility

You need full network packet visibility so your security systems can perform their job effectively. At the same time, your systems should only be analyzing the network traffic they are designed to see in order to achieve the highest efficiency. Otherwise, precious resources are consumed performing functions extraneous to security, such as filtering or load balancing. What you need is a packet flow system, which allows the enterprise to capitalize on improved control and conditioning capabilities to achieve expanded visibility coverage and more effective end-security device performance. That’s exactly what NETSCOUT provides as a network packet broker vendor.

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The packet flow system you deploy must solve the problem of limited packet visibility by creating a unified packet plane that logically separates security systems from the network, de-risking and streamlining your security deployments.

nGenius Packet Flow Systems

nGenius Packet Flow Systems are appliances that optimize the flow of packets from the network to the security systems. They perform key flow management functions, such as speed conversion, aggregation, and load balancing, as well as protect your network in the event of power loss or tool failure.

NETSCOUT offers flexibility and choice with its software-driven packet brokers that deliver unmatched savings—for active and passive monitoring. They scale easily and cost-effectively to meet your exacting security and network traffic analyzing and monitoring needs.

With nGenius PFS, you don't have to worry about active security systems disrupting the network or returning false negatives.

Full application health checks and conditional triggers ensure that your security systems perform as designed and that your monitoring infrastructure can automatically respond to any contingencies.

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No one understands the challenges service providers face when it comes to optimizing security systems better than NETSCOUT. Speak to one of our experienced subject matter experts to address your unique needs. We’ve got answers.

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nGenius Packet Flow Systems

  • NETSCOUT offers flexibility and choice as a software-driven network packet broker vendor that scales easily and cost-effectively.

  • For active (inline) monitoring, full application health checks and conditional triggers ensure that your security systems perform as designed and that your monitoring infrastructure can automatically respond to any contingencies identified by the network traffic analyzer.

  • High density in either 100G, 40G, 25G, 10G or 1G ports, with up to 64 ports of 100G.

  • nGenius software-based tool chaining allows you to place your security systems into a customizable virtual chain. This reduces the port requirement by 50 percent, freeing up ports to connect more systems.

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Bridging Network and Security Operations Requirements With NETSCOUT

This Case Study demonstrates how NETSCOUT smart visibility bridged the gap between NetOps and SecOps teams at this leading financial services company.

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Large Public School District Ensures Quality Student Learning Experience With NETSCOUT

Learn how this school district leveraged nGeniusONE for assuring remote learning services for students and teachers.

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Monitoring to the Edge with Smart Visibility in Data Center Operations

Learn how this network security team leveraged nGeniusONE service assurance and its application performance management functionality for real-time monitoring of their entire business system at a new data center.

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Public School District Ensures Quality Performance

Learn how this school district leveraged nGeniusONE for assuring remote learning services for students and teachers.

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Financial Services Provider Turns to NETSCOUT for Security and Services Assurance Visibility

Tap-to-tool offering wins over both security and network specialists

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Gaining Scalability and Flexibility for Monitoring and Security Tools

Global Financial Services Company Creates Packet Visibility Foundation for the Future

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Government IT Agency Balances Security with High Availability

nGenius packet flow switches ensure flawless rollout of active inline security deployment

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Healthcare Organization Enables Visibility at Scale

The NETSCOUT 100G packet flow solution ensures smooth rollout of critical EHR application

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Managed Security Service Benefits from Deep Packet Visibility

The NETSCOUT nGenius packet flow solution streamlines service delivery for Norway’s Mnemonic

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How to Fend off the Latest Cyber Threats

In this webinar from SANS, discover the latest cyber-attack methods and approaches facing security teams. Learn how to quickly identify malicious network traffic and how to achieve faster detection and response times.

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Boosting Network Security and Resilience

64% of companies know the key to better network performance. Are you one of them?

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Security Visibility at Scale for Dummies

Explore how architecting a modern security visibility network infrastructure can help your business adapt to new threats, lengthen the usefulness of your current security system investments, and enhance uptime and availability to drive business assurance.

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De-Risk and Scale Your Cybersecurity Deployments

Learn how a unified packet plane from NETSCOUT secures your network from cybersecurity threats and performance degradation when scaling your infrastructure.

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How to Select A Security Visibility Solution

Watch this recorded webinar to learn if you are asking the right questions.

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Packet Deduplication with nGenius Packet Flow eXtender

NETSCOUT's packet deduplication technology removes duplicate packets and provides a substantial reduction in the volume of traffic being delivered to, and being processed.

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Protecting Sensitive Data During Monitoring

Traffic visibility in compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc. regulations

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Achieve Business Assurance With unified packet visibility

Discover the Benefits of a Unified Packet Plane

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Optimize Security and Monitoring Systems For 10G and 40G networks

For 10G and 40G networks

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SANS 2017 Security Operations Center Report

A roadmap to a more effective SOC

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Security Proof of Concepts: Streamlined

Logically separate your network from security systems with a unified packet plane

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Security Visibility At Scale For Dummies

This book shows you how architecting a modern security visibility network infrastructure can help your business adapt to new threats, lengthen the usefulness of your current security system investments, and enhance uptime and availability to drive business assurance.

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Ten Questions to Ask Your Security Visibility Vendor

Confidently evaluate packet flow solutions for your network

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Unlock Optimized Active Security

The threat landscape is always changing, and security solutions must be able to keep up. For most, a network packet broker can help. But how do you know if a solution is right for you?

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Five Reasons to Select NETSCOUT for Security Visibility

nGenius packet flow switches are deployed world-wide for the most demanding security and service assurance applications. When security-optimized capabilities and value really matter, enterprises and service providers alike select NETSCOUT.

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Security Visibility

NETSCOUT nGenius packet flow systems (PFS) collect and organize the flow of traffic from the network to the security systems and monitoring tools – creating a unified packet plane that logically separates the network layer from the tool layer.

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Inline Security Streamlined

See the benefits of adding inline security to your network and how NETSCOUT packet brokers make deployment and management of inline security tools easy.

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