Organisations today face a challenging and constantly changing cyber security landscape, requiring a comprehensive 360-degree approach to data security. Network Management Systems (NMS) typically focus on higher-level network protocols and transactions leaving customers blind to threats within the network physical layer. These systems often attempt to detect malicious activity based on interface and data flow health, by which time the damage is already done.
FFT’s fibre optic technology is designed to detect and locate disturbances, intrusion attempts, tampering, and data tapping activities to within +/- 5 metres along data networks. This can be applied anywhere from local data centre LANs to long distance WAN transport reaching thousands of kilometres in length. By utilising the unused ‘dark fibres’ within the network cable, the technology ensures absolute integrity of the data traffic. FFT does not intercept, process or monitor the data packets. This allows customers with all levels of data sensitivity to monitor their networks without concern.
FFT offers solutions that pinpoint physical network disturbances and provide actionable alarms that enable network administrators to isolate the problem, reroute network traffic and respond to the threat - providing visibility of the physical layer currently missed by many network management and security platforms.
