Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, announced a series of breakthrough cybersecurity innovations to the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline in its latest GigaVUE 6.4 software release. Leading the way, Gigamon Precryption™ technology enables IT and security organizations, for the first time with an automated solution, to gain unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across virtual machine (VM) or container workloads to conduct advanced threat detection, investigation, and response across the hybrid cloud infrastructure – all in a highly efficient manner. While intended for security and privacy, encryption has become a hiding place for cybercriminals, with over 93 percent of malware now lurking behind encryption. With announcement at the company’s flagship Visualyze Bootcamp, Gigamon is helping IT organizations to eliminate these blind spots by shining a spotlight on this previously concealed threat activity inside encrypted traffic, reinforcing a strong foundation for Zero Trust.
According to the recent Gigamon 2023 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey, over 70 percent of the 1,000 IT and security leaders surveyed admit they currently don’t inspect the encrypted data flowing across their hybrid cloud infrastructure. This presents grave business risk as encrypted data cannot be sufficiently analyzed, and malware threats cannot be detected by security and monitoring tools alone as encrypted data traverses internally, externally, or laterally across an organization.
“As our reliance on the cloud increases, being able to inspect encrypted communications is critical in keeping the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and its assets safe and secure from threat actors,” said Michael Trofi, founder and CISO at Trofi Security. “With Precryption, Gigamon is 10 years ahead of the security industry with technology that detects previously concealed threat activity in a highly efficient manner that allows us to shift away from monolithic firewall architectures and complex decryption standards toward an efficient distributed model where our servers handle the processing without compromising performance. Gigamon Precryption will benefit the security industry as a whole and is a technology that organizations should closely evaluate as they migrate their operations to the cloud.”
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Gigamon Precryption Technology: One Solution for All Cloud Traffic, All Encryption Technologies
Gigamon Precryption technology reveals previously concealed threat activity, including lateral movement, malware distribution, and data exfiltration inside virtual, cloud, and container applications. Its innovative approach leverages eBPF technology inside the Linux kernel to deliver plaintext visibility, capturing traffic before encryption or after decryption. No keys need to be intercepted or sniffed, and no expensive decryption is required. Moreover, Precryption technology runs independently of the application, avoiding the operational challenges of classic agent-based approaches.
“Gigamon Precryption technology addresses the critical security challenge of our ability to see into certain encrypted traffic, which has the potential to expose our multi-cloud environment and business to unseen threats,” said Michael McCann, network manager, Information Systems at Foxwoods Resort Casino. “When I realized that Gigamon Precryption eliminates the complexity of key management and enables us to detect threats with a single view, it became clear this technology will redefine our security processes and significantly advance our security posture.”
“Global enterprises are increasingly successful with unifying security logs in a security data lake, but encrypted traffic poses a real challenge,” said Omer Singer, head of cybersecurity strategy at Snowflake. “Industry advances like Gigamon Precryption technology present a compelling path for organizations to turn encrypted cloud traffic into visibility for better security and compliance across hybrid cloud infrastructure.”
SOURCE: Businesswire