Gigamon provides a Deep Observability Pipeline that significantly enhances an organization's security and observability posture by transforming network-derived intelligence into actionable insights. This innovative approach helps eliminate blind spots across diverse infrastructures and optimizes tool investments.
Key Advantages of Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline
Gigamon's solutions offer a range of benefits for modern IT environments, from enhancing security to improving operational efficiency.
1. Eliminating Blind Spots
One of the primary benefits is the ability to gain complete visibility into network traffic, effectively eliminating blind spots. By extracting network-derived intelligence, Gigamon ensures that all data flowing across your infrastructure is visible and analyzable, regardless of where it resides.
- Comprehensive Insight: Provides visibility into encrypted and unencrypted traffic, north-south and east-west flows.
- Reduced Risk: Closes security gaps by making hidden threats visible.
2. Supercharging Security and Observability Tools
Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline acts as a force multiplier for existing security and observability tools. Instead of feeding raw, undifferentiated data to these tools, Gigamon processes, optimizes, and forwards only the relevant, high-fidelity network intelligence.
- Enhanced Tool Performance: Tools receive cleaner, more focused data, improving their accuracy and efficiency.
- Optimized Workflows: Streamlines data delivery, allowing security and operations teams to respond faster to incidents.
3. Reducing Tool Costs
By optimizing the data stream before it reaches security and monitoring tools, Gigamon helps reduce operational expenditures. Tools perform better with less data to process, often requiring fewer licenses or less infrastructure.
- Efficient Resource Utilization: Reduces the load on expensive security and observability tools.
- Strategic Investment: Maximizes the return on investment for existing and future security and monitoring solutions.
4. Unified Visibility Across Hybrid Environments
Gigamon delivers consistent network visibility whether your infrastructure is in the cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid of both. This unified approach simplifies management and ensures continuous monitoring.
| Aspect of Visibility | Gigamon's Solution | Key Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Visibility | GigaVUE Cloud Suite | Extends network visibility into dynamic cloud environments, supporting popular cloud platforms. |
| Data Center Visibility | GigaVUE Appliances | Provides deep insight into physical and virtual networks within traditional data centers. |
This dual capability ensures that organizations maintain a consistent security and observability posture across their entire digital footprint.
5. Enhanced Network Security
By providing unparalleled traffic intelligence, Gigamon significantly bolsters network security. It enables security teams to detect and respond to threats more effectively.
- Threat Detection: Delivers rich metadata and packet-level visibility crucial for advanced threat hunting and anomaly detection.
- Compliance & Forensics: Facilitates regulatory compliance by providing an auditable trail of network activity and aiding in post-incident forensic analysis.
6. Actionable Traffic Intelligence
Gigamon's pipeline generates intelligent data streams from raw network traffic, which are then used to drive security and operational decisions. This includes deep packet inspection, application-level visibility, and metadata generation.
- Operational Insights: Provides valuable data for network performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Proactive Management: Helps anticipate issues and optimize network resources before problems impact users.
Practical Applications
Organizations leverage Gigamon to:
- Improve Incident Response: Quickly identify and mitigate security breaches with full network context.
- Ensure Application Performance: Monitor application health and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across hybrid infrastructures.
- Validate Security Controls: Verify that security policies are effectively enforced and identify any gaps.
- Manage Cloud Migrations: Gain visibility during and after cloud transitions to maintain security and operational continuity.
By providing a cohesive platform for network-derived intelligence, Gigamon empowers IT and security teams to operate more securely, efficiently, and with greater insight.
