ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigamon Inc.
(NYSE: GIMO), the industry leader in traffic visibility solutions,
today announced that it is extending its data-in-motion Visibility
Platform to include the Microsoft Azure environment.
Developed in response to demand from enterprise customers with
applications deployed in Azure, the Gigamon® Visibility Platform
for Azure enables organizations to gain consistent and pervasive
visibility across their public, private and hybrid cloud
infrastructure.
With the promise of agile and flexible infrastructure, many
enterprises are embracing the potential of the public cloud.
However, with the shared-responsibility-model utilized by
Infrastructure-as-a-Service public cloud vendors, security
architects need to establish visibility into the cloud to ensure
that they maintain an effective and appropriate security posture
across their public and hybrid cloud architectures. The Gigamon
Visibility Platform is extending into the Microsoft Azure cloud
platform to ensure that data-in-motion entering, traversing or
leaving the cloud can be protected and monitored by existing
Security Operations Centers.
"Our customers around the globe require a solution that provides
the same level of visibility in their cloud, virtualized and
on-premise environments allowing them to leverage the knowledge and
processes they've built as they work to secure their enterprise and
cloud networks," said Ananda
Rajagopal, vice president of products at Gigamon. "Through
our strong alliance with Microsoft, Gigamon brings the power of
network visibility to Microsoft Azure. Enterprises can leverage
visibility to data-in-motion to extend and bolster their security
posture within Azure, assuring compliance and reducing the time to
detect threats."
A recent Vanson Bourne survey found that 90 percent of
enterprises surveyed plan to approach cloud security in the same
way they approach their on-premise security operations. Many have
withheld migrating mission-critical workloads into the cloud due to
the need to establish a comprehensive security framework that can
proactively detect threats, deviations from organizational
policies, and violations of industry compliance. Enterprises also
prefer to avoid making significant investments to rewriting their
on-premise applications, choosing instead to use a "lift-and-shift"
approach to accelerate migration to Azure. With pervasive network
visibility, enterprises can accomplish all these objectives and
thereby significantly benefit from the agility and scale advantages
in the cloud.
The industry recognizes the need for network visibility
platforms. According to Gartner, "By 2018, the 60 percent of
enterprises that implement appropriate cloud visibility and control
tools will experience one-third fewer security
failures."1
The Gigamon Visibility Platform for Azure offers:
- One consistent method to acquire network traffic and apply
traffic intelligence before distributing to multiple tools.
- Centralized orchestration and single-pane-of-glass
visualization of the Gigamon Visibility Platform across the entire
infrastructure – on-premise, public and private cloud. Traffic
policies are defined using a simple drag-n-drop user
interface.
- Tight integration with Azure APIs and Azure Monitor to
automatically detect changes in Azure Virtual Networks.
- Centralized visibility for security monitoring of all Azure
Virtual Networks in an enterprise.
"Our enterprise customers require a comprehensive network
security framework that can proactively detect threats, deviations
from organizational policies and violations of industry
compliance," said Ross Ortega,
Partner Product Manager for Azure Networking at Microsoft. "We are
pleased to be working with Gigamon to enhance network visibility
for Microsoft Azure customers who can implement a comprehensive
'detect and response' mechanism to extend their security posture to
Azure."
Mike Adler, vice president at
RSA, said, "As more data moves through cloud deployments, including
Microsoft Azure, it's essential for customers to gain pervasive
visibility. The network traffic data that Gigamon provides in the
Azure cloud platform boosts RSA NetWitness Suite's ability to
detect and respond faster to attacks through its ability to
correlate packets with security data from anywhere in the
network."
Gigamon at Microsoft Ignite
Visit Gigamon at Microsoft Ignite September 25 - 29, 2017 in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center. Meet with a
Gigamon representative to learn more about the Gigamon Visibility
Platform for Azure. Contact Kirk
Punches at kirk.punches@gigamon.com to request a
meeting.
1Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in Cloud Security, 2017,
Jay Heiser, Greg Young, Steve
Riley, Neil MacDonald,
May 26, 2017.
Additional Resources
- Learn more at the Gigamon Visibility Platform for Azure web
page.
- Attend the Microsoft Ignite breakout session "Monitoring,
Diagnosing and Debugging with Azure Networking" by Sesh Sayani, Director of Product Management,
Cloud, Virtualization and Fabric Management at Gigamon;
Abhishek Pathak, Program Manager
Azure Networking; Vijay Tinnanur,
Principal PM Manager at Microsoft; and Charles Barry, CTO at Jolata on Friday, September 29 at 9:00 am at the Hyatt Regency Windermere.
- Call for Azure Beta: Gigamon is currently gathering interest
for an Azure Beta Program that is scheduled to begin in
December 2017. If you are interested
visit www.gigamon.com/azure to sign up.
- Download the Gigamon Visibility Platform for Azure solution
brief.
- Read the blog on Gigamon Visibility Platform for Azure.
About Gigamon
Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO) provides active
visibility into physical and virtual network traffic, enabling
stronger security and superior performance. The Gigamon Visibility
Platform and GigaSECURE®, the industry's first Security Delivery
Platform, deliver advanced intelligence so that security, network,
and application performance management solutions in enterprise,
government, and service provider networks operate more efficiently
and effectively. Learn more at www.gigamon.com, the Gigamon blog or
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Matters.™
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