Name: Logs or Packets — Which is Better for Hybrid Cloud Security?
Start: 2024-02-14T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-02-14T18:00:26.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Gigamon® offers a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to cloud, security, and observability tools. This helps eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs, enabling you to better secure and manage your hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educational organizations.

Join us for an insightful session as we explore the "Power of 3"—a strategic collaboration between ePlus, Gigamon, and Nutanix. This powerful alliance is designed to deliver enhanced network and application visibility within hyperconverged virtualized environments. 

GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ for Nutanix provides in-depth visibility to enhance tool effectiveness, optimize performance, and accelerate troubleshooting of virtualized applications. You can aggregate and optimize traffic from your Nutanix deployments with the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. This provides centralized control, allowing the right traffic to be forwarded to the right tools.  

Combined with the ePlus expertise in cybersecurity, networking, digital transformation and more, Gigamon and Nutanix deliver the strategic advantage you need to build an agile, secure, and future-proof infrastructure. 

You will learn about: 
- Combining East-West and perimeter visibility to create an effective, strong security posture. 
- How to access network-derived intelligence to quickly identify and address risks and performance issues. 
- Instantly, identify which applications are communicating across your hybrid multi-cloud, instantly. 

Speakers: 
William Wheeler, CISSP, National Principal Security Architect at ePlus 
Scott Cobb, Principal Architect at ePlus 
Eric Walters, Technical Marketing Engineer - Security and Networking, CISSP at Nutanix 
Chris Dittert, Strategic Alliances Director at Gigamon

Power of 3 Webinar: How ePlus Helps Customers Combine the Power of the Hybrid Cloud with Deep Observability

Join Gigamon AI experts explain the AI tools and techniques underneath Gigamon Insights. This session will highlight how you can begin your AI journey with deep observability to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and improve security. Discover the transformative impact of Gigamon Insights and take the first steps towards a more efficient and secure network infrastructure.

Gigamon Insights: Deep Dive

With the convergence of IT, IoT, and OT environments, traditional perimeter defenses are no longer sufficient, especially in industrial and public sector settings where legacy and unmanaged devices are common. Zero Trust has emerged as the leading strategy to secure these complex environments. This session will explore how Gigamon supports Zero Trust by delivering pervasive, agentless visibility into East-West traffic across OT and ICS networks. Attendees will learn how to identify unauthorized devices, monitor communication patterns, and inspect encrypted traffic, even without endpoint agents, while aligning with federal mandates and ensuring operational continuity, safety, and compliance across mission-critical OT infrastructure.

Investigating the Unknown Visibility into IOT/OT Security

What if the answers were already there—just waiting to be revealed? Join Gigamon Chief Product and Development Officer Michael Dickman for an inside look at how the investigation is evolving. From evolving cyberthreats to elusive performance slowdowns, see how deep observability is reshaping how we detect, decide, and act. You’ll get a first look at what’s ahead on the product roadmap—and meet a new investigator in hybrid cloud whose initials just happen to be A.I. 

Gigamon President and CEO Shane Buckley will take a strategic look at what’s shifting in the hybrid cloud—and what’s about to reshape how we secure and manage it all. In a world full of noise, discover how Gigamon is helping customers see what others miss, drive meaningful outcomes, and stay one step ahead. Because the future belongs to the observant. Will announce the Customer GigaHero Awards.

In a World Full of Noise, the Future Belongs to the Observant

Zero Trust offers a powerful framework for reducing risk and improving resilience, yet it remains widely misunderstood. Many organizations believe they're implementing Zero Trust while deploying fragmented solutions or single policies without a cohesive strategy or measurable outcomes. Results inevitably fall short of expectations, creating confusion, skepticism, and stalled progress in critical areas like micro-segmentation and continuous monitoring. 

Gigamon's Public Sector Field CTO and Security CTO will discuss overcoming these challenges by aligning ZT strategies with the network using real-world examples. ZTA deployments within the US Federal government present ideal use cases because of strong policy mandates, mission-critical security requirements, and a robust partner ecosystem.

The Case for Zero Trust: Proper Security by Any Name

As mandates like DOGE and FAR 2.0, spending reforms, and AI reshape the public sector, agencies must sharpen visibility, improve efficiency, and reduce risk to do more with less. In this session, Tim Jones, Public Sector CTO at Gigamon, explores how deep observability supports Zero Trust initiatives by uncovering hidden threats and elusive performance bottlenecks across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Learn how agencies are solving critical security and operational mysteries while preparing for the next era of government modernization.

New Clues, New Challenges: Deep Observability in the Public Sector

AI is transforming industries at record speed, forcing IT and security leaders to rethink risk management in hybrid cloud environments. Gigamon surveyed more than 1,000 leaders worldwide — including CISOs across the United States — to understand the implications. Join this webinar to learn from the Gigamon Hybrid Cloud 
Survey findings: 
1. The cybersecurity challenges enterprises in the Americas face due to AI 
2. What compromises organizations are making to prioritize AI initiatives 
3. How AI is influencing cloud security perceptions in the U.S. market 
4. Proven practices to strengthen defenses against AI-driven attacks

Recalibrating Cybersecurity Risk in the Age of AI – Trends from the Americas

If you’ve worked with Gigamon, you’re likely familiar with metadata and its powerful role in enabling network-derived intelligence. Whether you’re already leveraging Application Metadata Intelligence or just beginning to explore its potential, this session is designed for you. 

In this technical deep dive, we’ll shift the focus from use cases to the underlying architecture. You’ll gain insights into how packets are transformed into metadata, the mechanics of application identification, options for enriching the data, and more. We’ll also walk you through how to configure these capabilities using Fabric Manager.

Get a Clue with Gigamon Application Metadata

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is upon us, yet most CISOs report feeling unprepared for this critical transition. Furthermore, with cryptographic technologies deeply embedded throughout enterprise infrastructures, organizations face a daunting question: where do you begin? 

Learn how Gigamon accelerates your PQC readiness through two essential capabilities: cryptographic discovery and inventory, plus advanced break-and-inspect (“Machine-in-the-Middle”) functionality for PQC-encrypted SSL/TLS traffic. Presented by Gigamon's Inline SSL Product Manager Saqib Ahmad and Security CTO Ian Farquhar, this session provides practical strategies for navigating this complex transition while maintaining security visibility.

Post Quantum: What's Next for Cryptography at Gigamon

Your Gigamon experience begins—and often thrives—in the “Library," our Technical Publications. Over the past year, we've gathered clues from direct user feedback to transform documentation, elevating your knowledge journey. The evidence is clear: improved documentation quality, dramatically fewer bugs, precisely synchronized release cycles, and enriched content featuring intuitive videos. 

In this session, we'll unveil these enhancements and introduce our groundbreaking AI-powered tool, AskDocs. Step into the “Study" to see how our dual-AI approach delivers precise, aggregated answers—solving your search mysteries efficiently. We'll also share popular AskDocs queries, valuable insights, and best practices to ensure you have the “Clue" to maximize your experience. Schedule a 1-on-1 “Detective Consultation" or join our exclusive AI training program to crack the next big case!

Ask AI and Next-Gen Documentation, Crack the Case

Ask almost any CISO about their biggest challenges, and managing compliance consistently ranks near the top. The complexity of navigating multiple frameworks, coupled with the high stakes of non-compliance, makes this area particularly intimidating for security leaders. The reality is that achieving and maintaining compliance can be made significantly easier with network telemetry. 

We'll explore several industry and cybersecurity compliance frameworks—examining why they exist, what they require, and who they impact—before demonstrating how network telemetry addresses specific controls more effectively. Through practical examples, attendees will see how leveraging network metadata can simplify compliance processes, improve audit readiness, and deliver faster, more reliable outcomes for critical security requirements.

Decoding the Compliance Puzzle: DORA, HIPAA, NIS2, PCI and Beyond

Guilty until proven innocent—that's where NetOps lands every time an application slows down, followed by hours of investigation to prove that it wasn’t the network. What if Application and Security teams could access the same network insights as NetOps, but within their own SIEM and observability tools?   

End the blame game once and for all by empowering cross-functional teams with shared network intelligence. Shift from reactive firefighting to proactive performance assurance with complete visibility into lateral traffic, including container-to-container and IoT/OT. We’ll show how network telemetry identifies anomalies including port spoofing and unsanctioned AI usage. Teams also have the “evidence” needed for fast and accurate root cause analysis. Turn the network from the leading suspect to your best detective.

Is it Always the Network's Fault? What the Evidence Reveals

Network visibility is essential for maintaining performance, ensuring compliance, and strengthening security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In this keynote, EMA analyst Chris Steffen will share key findings from the 2024 EMA Network Visibility Radar Report. Attendees will gain insights into the core capabilities that define a strong visibility solution, the growing importance of deep observability, and the vendors leading innovation in the space. With practical guidance on solution selection and a comprehensive view of the current market, this session will help organizations make informed decisions that align with their strategic IT and security goals.

Navigating the Network Visibility Landscape

Remote offices present critical visibility gaps for security monitoring. Distributed locations typically lack dedicated security infrastructure and operate over bandwidth-limited connections, creating blind spots and complicating threat detection. 

Gigamon V Series addresses visibility challenges across distributed networks. Through lightweight deployment on remote office servers, V Series captures detailed metadata from lateral traffic, without heavy infrastructure or bandwidth requirements, and then sends this metadata to centralized security and analytics platforms. This session explores remote office security and demonstrates how V Series delivers comprehensive lateral traffic visibility where needed most. Attendees will gain practical insights into deployment strategies and see a live demo showcasing the depth of visibility achievable with this approach.

Securing Cloud Workloads with On-Prem Tools

Discover the best of both worlds by seeing how network telemetry intelligence acquired and generated by Gigamon can be fed into the Cisco Splunk Data Fabric to accelerate security investigations and identify issues leading to slow application performance. Working together, Gigamon and Splunk provide unified hybrid cloud data management and full-stack, end-to-end visibility that power AI insights, reduce MTTR and accelerate trouble shooting in even the most complex hybrid environments.

Gigamon and Splunk: Powering Investigations with Agentic Insights

Has a vendor ever told you “Buy us and your Zero Trust journey is complete?” They either don’t understand Zero Trust or think you don’t. In this session, Gigamon Security CTO Ian Farquhar will discuss what it really takes to operationalize Zero Trust. Hear about minimizing implicit trust, implementing constant risk and posture assessments, and how to orchestrate security responses driven by risk determination. Ian will also discuss how to introduce these concepts to improve overall security posture.

Operationalizing Zero Trust: What It Really Takes

Join Chris Ebley (CTO at Blackwood Associates) and Crist Watts (Splunk Technical Lead at Aplura) as they share security automation strategies and answer frequently asked questions. Both Chris and Crist work for Gigamon professional services partners and have developed successful strategies that leverage Gigamon for faster detection and reaction to threats across the hybrid enterprise. These strategies, ideas, and techniques increase network-layer visibility and your organization’s ability to proactively detect and respond to threats, supporting security operations and compliance efforts as well.

Security Automation Architecture Strategies

SIEMs are one of the most important but also one of the most expensive security tools employed today. However, with the advent of high-performance cloud-based databases and low-cost storage, organizations — including Gigamon — are using these technologies to develop SIEM capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional SIEMs. In this session, we will highlight the potential financial and operational benefits of this approach and examine key issues when designing and deploying a security data lake.

Using a Security Data Lake to Reduce SIEM Costs

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing your hybrid cloud environment while ensuring network stability has become paramount. Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or just beginning your cloud journey, this webinar is tailored to provide you with actionable insights and strategies to fortify your hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Unlock Ultimate Hybrid Cloud Security: Join Nutanix for Expert Insights

Decryption is not the end goal; it's the means to the end, which is traffic inspection. Our Security CTO will discuss how plaintext data access can introduce privacy and insider threat concerns, and mitigation strategies used by our customers.

We have decrypted traffic. Now what?

How can we get clear-text visibility into a modern encrypted 5G core?” is one of the questions we hear most often from our mobile operator customers. Learn how Gigamon addresses this critical visibility issue and how we support the world’s largest mobile operators when they make the choice to go with a converged core, serving both 4G and 5G traffic.

Gain Visibility into Encrypted Core and 4G+5G Converged Core

As networks grow, so does the resource demands on network monitoring and security tools. Gigamon has an extensive array of tool optimization technologies, designed to extend the life of tools, saving both tool costs and carbon footprint. We’ll talk about the Gigamon tech enabling these savings. Plus, we’ll show you how to estimate your own savings, as well as demonstrate our free Discovery & Optimization Kit, which you can use to directly measure the efficiency savings in your own environment.

Maximizing Tools Efficiency, Minimizing Carbon Footprint

Log-based tools make it nearly impossible for CloudOps and DevOps teams to quickly pinpoint customer experience and performance issues. While logs are important for understanding what’s happened on the network, they can’t provide the real-time North-South and East-West visibility that’s needed for effective monitoring and troubleshooting. See how the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers network-derived intelligence to MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces)-based observability and SIEM tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.

Deep Observability: Delivering a Superior Application User Experience

In a digital landscape fraught with sophisticated cyber threats, traditional security models fall short in providing adequate protection. It's time to embrace a revolutionary approach – Zero Trust Security. Join us for a game-changing discussion where we delve into the depths of Zero Trust, the future of cybersecurity.

Demystifying Zero Trust: Navigate the Journey One Step at a Time

App developers are running fast, but have they kept security in mind every step of the way? Even as more applications are containerized, accessing and inspecting container traffic remains elusive. That is, until now. Gigamon Universal Cloud Tap (UCT) is a gamechanger for container visibility. Hear from a veteran Gigamon Sales Engineer as he shares best practices for accessing container traffic to better secure your applications.

A Practitioner's Guide to Container Tapping

Digital transformation is accelerating cloud adoption and changing the way network operations teams work. Mission-critical applications are increasingly deployed in a hybrid fashion – often across the AWS cloud and on-premise infrastructure. This shift brings pressing questions: How do you secure a hybrid architecture? How do you ensure access, uptime and an excellent customer experience? How do you architect hybrid applications for immediate value and long-term scalability? This session will show how one of the world's largest airlines leveraged Presidio, AWS, and Gigamon as a solution to these questions.

Elevate Your Network Architecture: Navigating AWS Cloud Networking

With today’s evolving hybrid cloud, you can’t afford to compromise when it comes to application performance and security monitoring. Gigamon Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) reduces tool burden by selectively sending application traffic to tools. Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) goes one step further to extract application attributes from traffic and then efficiently deliver them to SIEMs, APMs, and observability tools. In this session, Gigamon technical leaders will demonstrate how to use App Intel to isolate performance bottlenecks and solve tough security cases.

Application Intelligence Best Practices: Leveraging Layer 4-7 Capabilities

Visibility deployments in large and distributed hybrid cloud environments can be time-consuming as well as challenging. IaC, or Infrastructure as Code, can greatly simplify the process of scaling visibility solutions. The use of IaC addresses the issues of scaling deployments, upgrades, and rollbacks. In this session, Gigamon engineers will demonstrate an end-to-end deployment of Gigamon Cloud Suite for VMware using Ansible playbooks along with automating new technologies for accessing encrypted traffic.

Scaling VMware Visibility with Automation and Orchestration

Forrester security analyst, Tope Olufon, discusses the threat landscape and how we can deal with it in very practical terms, using deep observability techniques, visibility into encrypted traffic, and focusing on the network layer.

Forrester Discusses the Power of Visibility in Addressing Threat Landscape

Encrypted traffic is a major blind spot, especially in hybrid could environments. Gigamon has introduced a breakthrough approach that, for the first time, gives your tools full visibility into all encrypted cloud traffic without the heavy lift of traditional decryption methods or the complexity of key management. Our single, non-agent approach works with all encryption protocol standards, including TLS 1.3. Learn about this novel approach and how to put it to work for you.

A Breakthrough Approach to Inspecting Encrypted Traffic

This interactive panel of cybersecurity experts will share their challenges and what keeps them up at night in maintaining the security of their hybrid cloud infrastructure. The panel will also explore and discuss the latest challenges associated with gaining visibility into encrypted communications to detect concealed threat activity and how Gigamon is helping them to gain deep observability and improve their overall security posture.

Panel Discussion: Customer insights and perspectives on hybrid cloud security

Join President and CEO Shane Buckley and Chief Product Officer Michael Dickman as they share the latest updates on the company’s upbeat business momentum and technology roadmap. This session will include a breakthrough cybersecurity innovation announcement of a new single decryption solution that sees concealed threat activity in the cloud and seamlessly integrates with both modern and legacy TLS encryption standards. Learn how to advance your security posture and reduce operational complexity.

Welcome, Gigamon Momentum and Breakthrough Cybersecurity Innovations

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If your security tools rely on logs, you may not be seeing the whole picture. In fact, the picture may not even be reliable. That’s because logs can be overwritten, manipulated, and deleted by bad actors. To achieve a more proactive security and compliance posture, adding network-derived context to MELT data brings the entire picture into focus. In this session, we’ll discuss how immutable network intelligence enables you to spot SSL/TLS vulnerabilities, identify port spoofing, and stop rogue activities before damage is done.

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