SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
July 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Gigamon Inc. ("Gigamon"), the company leading the
convergence of network and security operations to help
organizations improve their security stance, today announced the
acquisition of ICEBRG, a Seattle-based security company. The
combination of network traffic visibility from the market-leading
Gigamon platform and the next-generation approach that ICEBRG
employs for the detection and triage of threats, will allow
enterprises to reduce risk and keep pace with the rapidly evolving
threat landscape.
Organizations currently rely on a set of disparate security
tools which produce siloed views of the same data. The
duplication of functions such as data acquisition, analysis and
alerts lead to inefficiencies in the security stack and higher
operational costs. Security teams, already suffering from
chronic resource constraints and threat fatigue, must complete
significant correlation after an event to produce actionable output
and understand which events to investigate and which to
ignore. Ultimately, this delays threat investigation and
impacts operational costs and response times, putting the
organization at risk.
Using ICEBRG sensors deployed at customer locations, rich
network traffic metadata is streamed into a cloud-based platform.
Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are empowered with a
rich set of APIs, an advanced query language, enriched metadata and
a set of automated detections that allow them to quickly identify
and act with confidence to remediate only threats of the highest
severity. Offered as a SaaS solution, SOC and Incident
Response teams can rapidly deploy new security technologies as
'security applications' and validate them with a robust data set
built over time.
"The market is primed for a new approach to enterprise security
that reduces risk, lowers cost, and increases leverage for SOC
teams. Building on our success supporting Mobile Service Providers
with a visibility solution, we see a similar opportunity to disrupt
the security market with the addition of ICEBRG to the Gigamon
Platform. This combination provides a compelling new way to enable
Security Operations professionals to regain the upper-hand," said
Paul Hooper, CEO of Gigamon. "I am
delighted to welcome the talented ICEBRG team, led by co-founders
William Peteroy and Josh Carlson, to Gigamon and I'm excited to add
a third R&D center in Seattle."
"We are excited to join Gigamon, a company that shares our
vision and desire to reshape the security market," said
William Peteroy, co-founder and CEO
of ICEBRG. "The combination of the high-quality network data from
the GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform and the ICEBRG
cloud-based platform will power the next generation of security
capabilities. Together, our expertise in networking and
security will help SOC teams focus on defending against the most
severe threats in their environments."
"Gigamon is known for providing high-quality access to network
data, whether the network data is accessed from on-premises or cloud environments. The
acquisition of ICEBRG brings Gigamon the cloud-based data
management capability essential for delivering advanced network
security as a service," said Eric
Ogren, sr. security analyst at 451 Research. "The
Gigamon-ICEBRG combination offers security teams a better way to
prioritize and respond to the most urgent threats, potentially
changing how we view security in the SOC of the future."
For more information and to register for an informational
webinar on ICEBRG, please visit www.gigamon.com/ICEBRG.
Gigamon will be at Black Hat in Las
Vegas on August 8th and
9th. Be sure to stop by booth #1058 to learn more about the
full portfolio of Gigamon solutions.
About Gigamon
Gigamon is the company leading the
convergence of network and security operations to help
organizations reduce complexity and increase efficiency of their
security stack. The Company's GigaSECURE® Security Delivery
Platform is a next generation network packet broker that helps
customers make threats more visible across cloud, hybrid and
on-prem environments, deploy resources faster and maximize the
performance of their security tools. Global 2000 companies and
government agencies rely on Gigamon solutions to help stop tool
sprawl and save costs. Learn how you can make your infrastructure
more resilient, more agile and more secure at www.gigamon.com, on
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