Name: Logs or Packets — Which is Better for Hybrid Cloud Security?
Start: 2023-10-10T08:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-10T08:00:26.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that harnesses actionable network-level intelligence to amplify the power of observability tools. This powerful combination enables IT organizations to assure security and compliance governance, speed root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower operational overhead associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures.

AI is evolving at unprecedented speed, driving both opportunities and new risks for organizations in EMEA and beyond. Gigamon surveyed over 1,000 Security and IT leaders — including CISOs from France, Germany, and the UK — to uncover how enterprises are adapting. In this webinar, we’ll share key findings from the 

Gigamon Hybrid Cloud Survey, including: 
1. The cybersecurity impacts of AI adoption on enterprises in EMEA 
2. The compromises businesses are making to accelerate AI projects 
3. How AI is shaping public cloud security strategies 
4. Effective practices to mitigate AI-driven cyber threats

Recalibrating Cybersecurity Risk in the Age of AI – Perspectives from EMEA

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

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

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

You know your Gigamon deployment delivers value, but when your CISO or budget committee demands proof, what evidence do you have? 

Glimpse, Gigamon's new AMI Evaluation Kit, provides concrete metrics on security impact, cost savings, and business value. Purpose-built to uncover hidden risks, performance bottlenecks, and wasted spend, Glimpse analyzes your actual traffic to deliver actionable insights in just 30 minutes. This session features a live Glimpse demonstration showing how to prove the business impact of deep observability, plus guidance on launching your own Glimpse test drive.

Fast Track the Investigation: Test Drive AMI with Gigamon Glimpse

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

Federal agencies face stringent security and compliance requirements when migrating to cloud environments. This session demonstrates how Gigamon's GigaVUE Cloud Suite delivers unified visibility and intelligent traffic management for government cloud initiatives while maintaining compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, and FISMA standards. Furthermore, the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline with Precryption® technology enhances threat detection, accelerates forensics, and improves operational efficiency.  Learn practical deployment strategies for lightweight Universal Cloud Tap (UCT) modules across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and Google Cloud Platform. Attendees will also learn how seamless integration with existing on-premises tools provides operational, cost-saving, and security benefits.

Cribl and Gigamon: Your Path to Modern, Zero Trust, AI-Ready Telemetry at Scale

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

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

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

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

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

AIOps is driven by data. But often there is a hidden – and untapped – data source that can provide additional, rich insights to AIOps and Security teams: this source is the network-derived telemetry generated by Gigamon. Join this session to learn how Gigamon can populate Elastic’s ML engine with rich application metadata that Elastic can use to accelerate threat hunting and troubleshoot application or network issues. Additionally, using Agentic AI, Elastic can automatically detect anomalous network activity and send alerts to security tools or users via JIRA, ServiceNOW, Slack or other similar services.

Gigamon and Elastic: GenAI Insights with ML/AIOps

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

Faster time to value plus streamlined fabric management? Now it’s possible with the introduction of GigaVUE-FM Copilot, an AI-driven assistant integrated into GigaVUE Fabric Manager. See how Copilot assists with common operational tasks, such as onboarding new visibility nodes and implementing traffic policies, with step-by-step guided workflows. Additionally, Copilot can provide intelligent recommendations on optimizing fabric configurations in your specific environment and help identify/troubleshoot emerging network issues. Learn how anyone, from novice to expert, can benefit from Copilot’s time-saving capabilities!

Accelerate Fabric Deployment and Management with FM Copilot

Think you know everything about Gigamon? Maybe not. This session uncovers hidden gems in the latest releases—newer capabilities that can transform your approach to network visibility and security. Discover lesser-known features designed to deepen traffic insights, accelerate threat detection, and streamline monitoring across hybrid cloud environments. 

We'll also provide an exclusive sneak peek at upcoming innovations that will further strengthen your security posture and optimize network operations. Learn how these upcoming capabilities address the evolving challenges of today's complex network architectures and unlock new possibilities.

What did I miss? Hidden Gems in the Product

Gigamon Product Clinic #3: GigaVUE Cloud Suite Dependencies - AWS Ports & Protocols

Join us for another clinic in our GigaVUE Cloud Suite Dependencies series. We will cover the details of AWS ports and protocols that you need to be familiar with if you are installing, configuring, and operating our products.

GigaVUE Cloud Suite Dependencies - AWS Ports & Protocols

Building defenses, protecting our walls and guarding the castle. They all sounded a lot easier when the castle walls were solid, clear and defined. These days, it can feel a bit more like you are jousting in fog to protect borders you can’t see or define. Not only are bad actors evolving, but the cloud environments you are asked to protect and secure are rapidly multiplying and becoming more complex. It is time to get out of the fog and stop jousting with air!

Protecting and Securing Cloud Environments

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research data shows that 83% of organizations are lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud. As companies utilize cloud services for productivity, scale, and modernizing software development, security needs a means of keeping up and effectively securing these hybrid cloud environments. 

However, the complexity of today’s attack surface, new stakeholders involved in security decisions, and limited cloud knowledge in SecOps teams impede effective hybrid cloud protection.

Register for this Fireside Chat to understand how to close the hybrid cloud security gap, with our expert speakers ESG Cybersecurity Practice Director Melinda Marks and Martyn Crew, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing and Partner Technologies at Gigamon. Together, Crew and Marks will cover, alongside rich ESG data:
• Cloud modernization trends 
• Hybrid cloud security best practices 
• AI preparedness: Cyber-adversary advantages gained from AI 
• And the components of Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, which provides app monitoring across cloud environments.

Hybrid Cloud Security: Closing the Preparedness Gap & Resolving Top Challenges

Gigamon Product Clinic Episode 2

Join us for our GigaVUE Cloud Suite Prerequisites series. We will cover required IAM privileges, access permissions, and policies that you need to be familiar with. Feel free to ask questions during the session; afterwards, we'll share them in the Gigamon Community on Hybrid/Public Cloud Group page. 

Who should attend: 

Customers that use our GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS or anyone interested in cloud-based observability and analytics in AWS environments.

GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ Prerequisites - AWS IAM Policies

Critical infrastructure houses our nation’s most crucial assets, making it a prime target for adversaries. To address this threat, robust cybersecurity measures are necessary. In this panel, we’ll hear how Congress has worked together to pass legislation and policy that bolster our nation’s cybersecurity efforts and safeguard crucial assets. The discussion will shed light on recent incidents involving critical infrastructure, including the recent AT&T outage, and will also highlight the work that remains.

Presenters:
[Moderator] Karen Evans, Managing Director, Cyber Readiness Institute
Slate H. Herman, Counsel, Communications and Technology, Energy and Commerce Committee (Majority)
Johanna Thomas, Counsel, Communications and Technology Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure

For our inaugural Product Clinic, John Gonzales, Technical Success Manager, delivers a deep-dive technical demo on how to deploy GigaVUE Fabric Manager from the AWS Marketplace.

Product Clinic: How to Deploy Fabric Manager from the AWS Marketplace Clinic

The complexity of hybrid application environments obscures root cause identification hinders proactive incident resolution, and negatively impacts user experience. Organizations need a unified observability solution that delivers full-stack visibility, leverages AI for predictive and prescriptive insights, establishes user-centric Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and generates timely, actionable alerts to maintain optimal service delivery. 

By combining Dynatrace’s automated application and infrastructure monitoring with application metadata and network-derived intelligence from Gigamon, Trace3 created a truly Unified Observability architecture.  

Join our webinar to learn how this innovative coupling helps clients achieve a holistic view across the hybrid estate, allowing operators to efficiently go from issue detection to root cause by leveraging Davis AI and the Dynatrace Grail Data. Asking questions of application telemetry can now be combined with that of deep infrastructure telemetry to remove the limitations in understanding what affects the outcomes our clients desire.

Presenters:
Chris Nicholas, SVP, Cloud Solutions Group, Trace3
Adam Hicks, Practice Director, Cloud Platform Engineering, Trace3
Nishant Rama, Director Solutions Engineering, Dynatrace
Chris Dittert, Strategic Alliances Director, Gigamon

Achieving a Holistic View of What Is Happening in Your Hybrid Infrastructure

Feeding traffic from AWS to security and performance monitoring tools can become very expensive as environments scale and deploy NDR/XDR sensors. Organizations can be overwhelmed by the surprisingly high costs of AWS, especially when load balancers are needed to support large amounts of volume. 

But are there alternatives to using native AWS tools to access cloud traffic? Alternatives that might be more cost-effective and easier to deploy and manage?   

Join us to learn how the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline provides architectural alternatives to native AWS tools that can eliminate the costs of network gateways and load balancers. Jim Mandelbaum, Gigamon Field CTO and Ryan Mahoney, Product Marketing Manager, will discuss alternatives ways to acquire, broker, and transform AWS traffic that provide a significantly more cost-effective approach without compromising the quality of the data being acquired.

Design a Cost-Efficient AWS Visibility Architecture

The Security of hybrid cloud models is a crucial topic that holds significance in today's technology world. As the landscape of artificial intelligence continues to expand, safeguarding your data within the diverse realms of cloud environments becomes paramount.  

This webinar will shed light on how prioritizing cloud security is essential for organizations. By investing in best practices for cloud security, businesses can not only fortify their data against potential threats but also optimize cloud performance.  

Discover how the partnership between WWT, Gigamon and Nutanix can provide an innovative approach to securing your hybrid cloud environments.

Securing the Hybrid Cloud: WWT, Nutanix and Gigamon

Hosted By: Gigamon & Carahsoft 

Threat actors conceal lateral movement and data extraction within encrypted communications, making it incredibly difficult to detect when they are present. Gigamon Precryption™ technology is a breakthrough approach to increasing network deep observability in hybrid cloud infrastructure. 

This technology increases deep observability while simultaneously enabling organizations to meet encryption compliance standards. At the same time, Gigamon Precryption technology is reducing complexity and costs to decryption. Precryption offers plaintext visibility into encrypted communications before the payload is encrypted – no decryption required. 

In this complimentary webinar, attendees learned how to: 
- Understand Precryption technology and why it is different 
- Eliminate blind spots and prevent cybercrime using Precryption 
- Help security teams achieve TLS 1.3 compliance, boost DNS security and extend Zero Trust architecture into the hybrid cloud

See Concealed Threat Activity Before Encryption

Hosted By: Gigamon & Carahsoft 

Hybrid cloud infrastructure is complex and time-consuming to secure, manage and maintain. Modern organizations must contend with multiple cloud providers and a myriad cloud, security, and observability tools, which add layers of complexity and make it challenging to detect security threats and performance anomalies. 

The DoD must not only face these challenges, but also must account for disrupted, disconnected, intermittent and low-bandwidth (DDIL) cloud environments that support theaters of operation. This webinar included how the hybrid-cloud network is the foundation of the hyper-connected digital infrastructure, and why network visibility and control are paramount for the proper operation and protection of all the network components and capabilities. 

During this webinar, attendees learned how to: 
- Access network traffic insights without blind spots through Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline 
- Empower their mission to safeguard critical network infrastructure and assets with high-performance, next-generation network visibility 
- Become agile for edge and tactical cloud network deployments 
- Normalize and consolidate network traffic insights with one Visibility Fabric 
- Derive continuous insights into the behavior and activity in their networks

Multi-Cloud Deep Observability From the Enterprise Cloud to the Tactical Edge

Organizations are exploring solutions to fortify their security posture as the threat landscape becomes more sophisticated and the number of breaches skyrockets. As teams look for new solutions, the challenge remains:   

How does an organization secure network traffic once it crosses a firewall and becomes East-West traffic?  

Join us to learn how you can build a security posture that combines firewalls with E-W visibility to enable successful detection and response of security issues.  

In this webinar, you will:   
- Learn the importance of integrating East-West visibility into your security posture  
- Discover the tools you need to effectively analyze East-West traffic  
- Understand how to create a scalable security posture that combines covers North-South, East-West, and encrypted traffic

Why Firewalls Are No Longer Enough

As hybrid cloud architectures become the new normal for enterprises and government organizations, many IT and Security leaders struggle with maintaining the balance of meeting business demands for faster application development and deployment with the need to maintain and enhance their hybrid cloud security posture.

Ensuring Security for Hybrid Cloud Companies

Making security systems more effective with less cost

Ransomware is a devastating cyberthreat that continues to grow and wreak havoc throughout all industries. CISOs have a deep desire to protect against every threat they possibly can, and eliminate every potential blind spot, but rarely have unlimited budget, time, and people to do so. In this webinar, hear from Michael Dickman, Chief Product Officer at Gigamon, and Alan Weckel, Co-Founder and Analyst at the 650 Group, about how you can uplevel your defense against ransomware while keeping costs in check.  

- Hear best practices for making Security investments go further, achieving better signal-to-noise while managing tooling costs 
- Walk away understanding how to detect encrypted lateral movement from a threat actor 
- Take SIEMs, NDRs, IDSs, and Firewalls to the next level

Gigamon Analyst Connection: 5 Pragmatic Tips for Preventing Ransomware

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

Today’s modern cloud-first organizations are continuing to invest in advancing digital transformation initiatives to heighten business agility, while tackling an ever-more dangerous threat landscape in an uncertain economy. Join us for an engaging conversation on how to increase application performance, exceed expectations to realize the full potential of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures while cutting costs, and reducing complexity. Our panelists will also explore how to amplify the power of traditional security and observability tools with actionable network-derived intelligence and insights to eliminate blind spots, maintain visibility into all data-in-motion – including East-West encrypted and container traffic as well as improving fidelity and proactively mitigate compliance risk.

Enhancing Business Agility: Amplifying Your Cloud and Security Program

The cloud has done nothing to make IT simpler. Tools, products, and services have proliferated to an alarming degree and many people fear we are recreating the siloes of the 2000s. Learn how the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline can provide a single platform to amplify the power of your cloud, security, and observability tools with network-derived intelligence and insights.  Find out how Gigamon: 

- Accesses, optimizes, and distributes data from any cloud source to any cloud tool, product, or service 
- Eliminates agents and mirroring processes that waste CPU resources and network bandwidth 
- Ensures complete North-South and East-West visibility including into encrypted and container trafficJoin Martyn Crew, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Gigamon, to discover how to get your tools, products, and services working more effectively together to support your organization.

Cloud Tools and Product Success Starts (and Ends) with the Data

Join this exclusive webinar where industry experts from Gigamon, Presidio and AWS unveil the essential strategies for a successful workload migration to hybrid cloud environments. In today’s ever-evolving tech landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud solutions powered by the strengths of Gigamon’s visibility and AWS’ cloud capabilities to achieve flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.   

During this informative session, we will dive into the top 5 key considerations that are crucial to ensure a smooth and secure transition of your workloads into the cloud, our expert panel will cover:  
- Security and Compliance 
- Data Migration Strategies 
- Performance Monitoring 
- Cost Optimization 
- Scaling and Future-Proofing 

Don’t miss this chance to stay ahead in the cloud computing landscape.

Mastering Cloud Migration: 5 Key Considerations for Seamless Workload Migration

In this engaging session, our expert speakers, Tim Christie, and Mark Jow, will unveil the revolutionary Gigamon Precryption™ technology.

Discover how Precryption eliminates the biggest blind spot in modern hybrid cloud infrastructure: With Precryption, you'll gain plaintext visibility into all encrypted communications without the need for decryption.

Precryption™ – the New Decryption

It's cloudy out there, what direction are we headed?  

Hybrid Cloud? Multi-Cloud? Cloud Native? Whether you're already there or planning to migrate, it's critical to understand the networking implications that can have a big impact on your happiness. In this webinar, Chris Dittert from Gigamon joins networking expert Aniket Daptari from Nutanix to discuss key architectural considerations and best practices to help minimize the bumps you may encounter in your cloud journey.  

Join to learn more about these issues: 
- Being Cloud smart 
- Three infrastructure mistakes to avoid 
- Seamless workload mobility

Best Practices and Insights to Optimize your Cloud Journey

Security is more complicated than ever. Most organizations still have traditional networks, traditional datacenter assets, and employees inside the network. All those resources must be protected by iterating and innovating on the tried-and-true methods. Watch this webinar to learn how Gigamon uses innovative solutions to lock down the layers of your environment. 

- Is layered security meaningful in a hybrid world? 
- Is a single security model possible? 
- How is Gigamon evolving our own IT against this background?

Securing Your Borders: Evolving Each Layer of Your Security Program

Network observability is a hot topic for many reasons: today’s distributed nature of work, hybrid cloud environments (including containers), and the evolving connectivity infrastructure, to name a few. Join industry experts Will Townsend from Moor Insights & Strategy and Michael Dickman from Gigamon as they discuss what network observability is all about, why it's crucial in today's cloud-centric landscape, and developments that could impact you in 2024.

Moor Insights & Strategy: Network Observability in the Cloud – Why it Matters

Encrypted lateral traffic: Is there a bigger blind spot? We can only search where the light shines, not where we lost that proverbial key. The shadows today’s hybrid-cloud digital infrastructure provides a hiding space for both threat actors and pesky app troubleshooting issues.  

Do any of these apply to your organization? 
- Lack of network traffic visibility into east-west, lateral virtual traffic, including container pod-pod or client-server communications. 
- No practical way to decrypt that traffic, especially TLS 1.3. 
- Current SIEMs and observability tools cannot see and run analytics on unmanaged host communications. 
- Tools cannot ingest network packets because of capability, capacity, and cost challenges. 
- App owners resist agents in their apps and workloads. 
 
You will get a behind the curtain look at this new technology and see a demo of emerging real-life use cases that are just now coming to light. Join us for a view into the future of security and operations.

Shedding Light on Encrypted Lateral Traffic: Precryption™ Unveiled

In this Risky Business News podcast interviewer,Tom Uren, talks to Ryan Mahoney, Product Director at Giamon. The TLS 1.3 encryption standard makes passive network monitoring inside your network difficult without break and inspect cortortions.  Listen to learn more about the Gigamon Precryption Solution.

RiskyBiz Podcast : Precryption™

To eliminate East-West blind spots, you must be able to acquire and inspect Kubernetes container traffic. We’ll start by explaining the fundamentals of containers and then, with the help of Gigamon Distinguished Engineer, Naveed Cochinwala, dive deep into how Gigamon enables the analysis of container traffic flows using the newly released Universal Container Tap access function. This is a non-obtrusive way to access Kubernetes container traffic that will automatically scale with your deployments.

Overcoming Kubernetes Container Access and Scalability Challenges

Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) is a game-changer for our customers. We’ll explain why and show you step-by-step in GigaVUE- FM Fabric Manager how to configure and send selected application and protocol attributes to your observability and security tools. Using Dynatrace as the tool in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how application metadata enables detection of unsanctioned activities that would otherwise be invisible to your observability and security tools.

Why Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) is a Game-Changer

The opportunities created by cloud products and services are enabling organisations to reach new heights of scalable growth and goals in 2023. The flexibility and agility of cloud environments is exciting for business development, but the amount of choice available to IT practitioners can also be overwhelming.

So, if you are feeling decision fatigue or a sense of paralysis in the face of choice overload, you are not alone!

Join us for this exciting MegaCast covering all the hottest insights into cloud tools, trends and solutions. All the expert advice you need to empower your organisation’s cloud success!

All About Cloud: Tools, Products, and Services Critical to Cloud Success

TechFix: Securing the Hybrid Cloud

To eliminate East-West blind spots, you must be able to acquire and inspect Kubernetes container traffic. We’ll start by explaining the fundamentals of containers and then, with the help of Gigamon Distinguished Engineer, Naveed Cochinwala, dive deep into how Gigamon enables the analysis of container traffic flows using the newly released Universal Container Tap access function. This is a non-obtrusive way to access Kubernetes container traffic that will automatically scale with your deployments.
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This session originally aired during Gigamon Visualyze Boot Camp

EP 3: Kubernetes Container Access, Traffic Analysis, & Scalability Fundamentals

Dev teams are running fast iteratively modernizing apps, often without involving operations teams. Unmonitored network blind spots continue to increase attack surface and make troubleshooting more difficult, often leading to finger-pointing at NetOps teams.   

At this webinar VMware and Gigamon Product teams will provide you with walk throughs, use cases and best practices, and even show you a demo of new, cutting-edge technologies. 
- 5 steps for successful cloud migration and app modernization 
- Recommendations for containerizing and re-securing apps  
- How to eliminate all east-west blind spots, including container communications, and 
- New technology demo: Feeding intelligence from cloud traffic to your SIEM and observability tools

EP 2: NSX-T and container blind spots? Here’s what to do.

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.

EP 5: Scaling VMware Visibility with Automation and Orchestration

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.

EP 4: A Practioner's Guide to Container Tapping

Clear Away The Fog with Gigamon Deep Observability: As the cloud becomes foggier and more complex, the need to provide teams and the tools they rely on with deep observability into all activity and traffic becomes critically important. For almost twenty years, Gigamon has been the leader in ensuring visibility and tools efficiency to enhance an organization’s public, private and hybrid cloud security postures. Join Gigamon to discover: 

- How Gigamon Deep Observability pipeline delivers complete visibility into hybrid traffic 
- Techniques to optimize traffic to tools and between hybrid platforms 
- A revolutionary new approach to handling cloud traffic encryption and decryption

EP 1: Enhancing Your Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Security Posture

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.

EP 8: A Breakthrough Approach to Inspecting Encrypted Traffic

Cloud Tools: Products and Services Critical to Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success Summit

Join Jim Mendelbaum, Field CTO with Gigamon in this webinar to hear how you can better understand your Cloud Traffic and learn about Services Critical to Cloud Migration.

EP 6: Cloud Tools: Products and Services Critical to Cloud Migration & Security

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.

Logs or Packets — Which is Better for Hybrid Cloud Security?

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Logs or Packets — Which is Better for Hybrid Cloud Security?

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