Gigamon Delivers Advanced Inline SSL Solution to Eliminate Network Blind Spots

New SSL/TLS Decryption/Encryption solution provides scalable visibility and management of encrypted traffic to expose hidden malware, data exfiltration and command and control threats

Santa Clara, Calif., (February 9, 2017) – Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO), the industry leader in traffic visibility solutions and provider of the Gigamon Visibility Platform, today announced a significant expansion to its GigaSECURE® SSL/TLS Decryption solution, with new inline capabilities, bringing enhanced visibility into encrypted data-in-motion.

As the volume of encrypted traffic continues to rise, organizations are more vulnerable to encrypted attacks, hidden command and control (C&C) threats and data exfiltration exploits that go undetected. With its expanded SSL decryption solution, Gigamon helps remove network blind spots to expose malicious threats and feeds decrypted traffic-of-interest to the appropriate security tools for immediate analysis and mitigation.

This solution addresses the growing challenges Security Operations teams face in managing encrypted traffic. Most security tools are not designed to identify and decrypt large volumes of encrypted traffic. Those tools that do decrypt SSL traffic typically become overstressed and suffer significant performance degradation once SSL decryption is enabled. The net result is repeated decryption and re-encryption of SSL sessions as application flows traverse infrastructure, leading to unnecessary appliance sprawl, increased cost and complexity and ultimately, higher application latency.

The Gigamon SSL Decryption solution addresses these challenges with a new GigaSMARTÒ traffic intelligence application that supports both inline and out-of-band decryption. The new set of supported ciphers include Diffie-Hellman (DH), Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral (DHE), Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and Elliptic Curve, and operates in networks that range from 1Gb to 100Gb.

The new SSL Decryption solution automatically identifies all SSL/TLS traffic across any port or application by establishing a “decrypt once and feed to multiple tools” design for improved scale and resiliency. A key enabler of this solution is an advanced set of traffic selection and distribution capabilities in the Gigamon Visibility Platform that simplifies deployment of SSL decryption at scale. Furthermore, advanced policies enable traffic filtering and selective decryption based on URL categorization using the market-leading Webroot BrightCloud® Web Classification Service, domain names, and decrypt-include/exclude list policies, in order to meet data privacy and compliance requirements.

“Inline SSL decryption represents a strategic technology evolution that further expands the benefits of the Gigamon Security Delivery Platform,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of products at Gigamon. “By offering SSL decryption as a service in the Security Delivery Platform complemented by strong policy enforcement, organizations can create a centralized ‘decryption zone’, enabling them to more easily see and manage their growing SSL/TLS traffic volumes, while enabling their security tools with newfound visibility into formerly encrypted traffic and threats."

SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW

The new inline SSL Decryption application is a key component of GigaSMART traffic intelligence application suite that significantly expands the applicability of SSL decryption beyond the previously supported out-of-band SSL decryption. Inline SSL decryption addresses a vastly expanded universe of use cases such as monitoring accesses to Internet-based services for risk/compliance violations, detecting malicious activities such as command and control (C&C) communications, decrypting TLS sessions that use modern cipher suites and above all, creating an efficient framework to manage encrypted traffic at scale.

The inline SSL decryption application complements other GigaSMART applications, such as de-duplication, application session filtering, data masking and metadata generation, that optimize, automate and deliver traffic-of-interest to the appropriate monitoring and security tools across the network. SSL Decryption is a software feature that utilizes a perpetual lifetime license. The license will initially be available on the GigaVUE-HC2 visibility appliance with a list price of $29,995 and will be generally available late March 2017.

For more information on Gigamon’s SSL Decryption and technical specifications, visit our solutions page here.

GIGAMON OVERVIEW

The Gigamon Visibility Platform enables a modern, secure infrastructure that delivers pervasive visibility into all the data-in-motion across an enterprise network – physical, virtual, private, hybrid and public cloud environments. With an extensive and growing network and security partner ecosystem, Gigamon offers the simplicity, breadth, and depth needed to support the network optimization and security needs of organizations of all types and sizes.

GIGAMON AT RSA 2017

Join Gigamon at RSA 2017, February 14th – 16th to learn more about the Gigamon Visibility Platform and GigaSECURE offerings at booth #1523, South Hall, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

SSL Decryption solutions page

SSL Decryption highlights blog

GigaSECURE® solutions page

GigaSMART® solutions page

Gigamon Security Delivery Platform page

GigaVUE-HC2 solutions page

Video series on SSL/TLS encryption trends and technology overview

About Gigamon

Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO) provides active visibility into data-in-motion network traffic, enabling organizations to see more and secure more with stronger security and superior performance. 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. See more at www.gigamon.com, the Gigamon Blog, or follow Gigamon on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook.

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