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What is Passive Monitoring?

Passive monitoring silently analyzes network traffic through a span port or tap to identify endpoints and traffic patterns. It creates no additional network traffic and has virtually no risk of disrupting critical processes by interacting directly with endpoints. However, passive monitoring can take more time to collect asset data as it must wait for network traffic to be generated to or from each asset to create a complete baseline profile.

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Feature Spotlight: OT Activity Event Alerts

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