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Article: Performance analysis 'tapped' in: aggregating taps offer a viable option for monitoring network performance and security.(Networking Monitoring)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Effective IT security and performance management relies on visibility. IT departments need visibility of production network data to identify security vulnerabilities and violations, as well as network and application performance. Often, this involves the deployment of analysis devices capable of examining a vast quantity of data traversing critical network links. Intrusion detection, intrusion protection, network monitoring, application monitoring, Web monitoring and protocol analysis are some of the solutions increasingly deployed on the network to ensure IT compliance and performance.
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