TechFix: Unleash Maximum Efficiency with Network Optimization

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.

As networks become more complex, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, and security becomes increasingly difficult. While Gigamon provides powerful troubleshooting capabilities, preventing the occurrence of problems in the first place is a key part of any resilience strategy. Over the years, Gigamon has developed tools and approaches to ensure the optimal health of your network. Learn how to use our no-cost GigaScan and HealthCheck services to assess the health of your network and avoid costly downtime.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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! In this webinar, you will learn how to enable a modern security portfolio through identify tools, strategies and solutions to build the protective defense layers your organization needs to secure its’ vital cloud environments.

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?

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.

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.

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.

One of the challenges facing public sector organizations, such as U.S. and international government agencies, is the inability to carry IT gear from one place to another to ensure security and compliance. Many of these organizations have critical requirements for mobile deployable units that don’t compromise enterprise-grade functionality for comprehensive traffic and security intelligence.

Join us to learn more about Gigamon and Ardalyst. They are dedicated to enabling organizations to build an effective and efficient cybersecurity posture, making Gigamon the ideal choice for organizations to uplevel their security and monitoring capabilities.

Learn how to:
- Empower your mission to safeguard critical network infrastructure and assets with high-performance, next-generation network visibility
- Become agile for edge and tactical deployments to help future-proof complex network visibility requirements through small footprint
- Provide satellite network protection from cyberattacks and secure OT environments through robust security measures and continuous monitoring

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.

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

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

In light of the critical CVE-2024-3400 vulnerability disclosed by Palo Alto Networks, it’s clear that traditional security tools need to be leveraged more effectively to detect and mitigate sophisticated threats. This webinar will guide attendees on how to enhance the utility of existing security infrastructures, like NDR, SIEM, Elastic, or even observability tools, to achieve deeper network visibility and security intelligence, ensuring robust defense mechanisms against both known and emerging threats. This is a show-and-tell session where you will see advanced practices for: - Enhanced East-West Traffic Monitoring: Strategies to ensure comprehensive inspection of lateral communication within networks using your current security tools. - Decryption and Compliance: Balancing the decryption of network traffic for security purposes while maintaining strict compliance and privacy standards. - Intelligence Extraction from Network Traffic: Techniques to harness rich metadata from network packets in your SIEM for proactive threat detection. - Post-Breach Threat Detection: Best practices for utilizing network-derived metadata for identifying and responding to post-compromise activities, including practical applications of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs).

Observability provides enormous business value, but organizations that implement it often suffer from data collection sprawl, and incomplete network application visibility. This discussion will focus on how Gigamon improves the value of SIEM and Observability tools by adding Network Intelligence and more to the toolset.

A practical guide to generating insights from network traffic for operations and security

In today’s hybrid and multi-cloud world how do organizations keep up with the volume and complexity of the data being generated and leverage it to deliver business outcomes? AIOps can help, but it’s thirsty for high-quality, complete data. Much of the telemetry is there, but it’s often siloed and diverse, cluttered with irrelevant information, and lacks critical context for security and performance use cases. How can you cut through the noise and feed your AIOps engine only the necessary data it needs to make smart, quick decisions?

In this webinar, Carlos Casanova, Principal Analyst, Forrester, and Bassam Khan, Vice President of Product and Technical Marketing Engineering, Gigamon, will discuss how organizations can strengthen their AIOps efforts by leveraging network communications, the one normalized telemetry across any hybrid-cloud infrastructure. They will illustrate ways to deliver insights derived from network traffic for enhancing security, improving application performance, faster troubleshooting, and optimizing AIOps costs.

Microsegmentation, like EDR, NDR, and a myriad of other tools, is an important part of an organization’s defense-in-depth strategy. But, like any one of those tools, microsegmentation is not an answer in itself. Join Gigamon Security CTO, Ian Farquhar, and Technology Partner Senior Director, Martyn Crew, as we discuss how to get the most out of your existing or planned microsegmentation investment.

In this webinar, Ian and Martyn will discuss:
- The pros and cons of microsegmentation
- Where microsegmentation fits within a defense-in-depth security strategy
- How Gigamon can increase the technical effectiveness and ROI of your microsegmentation investment

Use of encryption for network traffic continues to rise, for both good and bad. Today over 85% of malware relies on encryption to hide in plain sight. The need to decrypt and inspect traffic is easy to see and is recommended by The NSA. Deploying actual decryption in a cost-effective and scalable way while meeting privacy and compliance requirements might not have been easy. However, it doesn’t need to be difficult or expensive.

Gigamon TLS/SSL Decryption offers a centralized, high-performance solution that improves existing security tools by decrypting traffic once and inspecting it many times. Decrypting traffic exiting the network enables command and control detection, preventing data exfiltration and strengthening the company’s compliance stance. By being able to selectively choose what traffic to decrypt and what not to, it becomes possible to engage the right tools to enhance the security posture effectively.

This webinar is designed to equip security and network architects with knowledge of current decryption trends, known challenges, and recommended solutions by demonstrating real-world use cases.