This white paper discusses the specialized packet-capture capabilities required by military, law enforcement, intelligence, and cybersecurity response teams. These groups must investigate and neutralize threats such as hacking, malware, fraud, network penetration, surveillance activity, and attacks on critical communications. Traditional port mirroring may introduce bottlenecks, omit packets, and reveal monitoring activity, while an inline network TAP creates a complete and undetectable copy of traffic without having an address on the monitored network. The paper compares cyber response teams to tactical special forces, emphasizing equipment that is portable, quick to deploy, accurate, discreet, and capable of capturing full-duplex traffic at line rate. A compact USB-powered TAP paired wit

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