Eliminate Blind Spots in Lateral (East-West) Traffic
Gain deep observability, enhance performance monitoring, and strengthen your organization's security posture.
Establish Effective Security and Monitoring Postures
Organizations are monitoring hybrid cloud infrastructure in an increasingly challenging cybersecurity threat landscape.
Traditional perimeter security architectures that rely on log-based security tools provide an incomplete view of what is happening once traffic enters the infrastructure.
Cloud-first organizations require deep observability into all hybrid cloud network traffic. The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline enables:
- Effective security and performance monitoring by combining proven analysis strategies with efficient access to network-derived intelligence
- Instant identification of applications communicating across hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Simplified access to traffic that is difficult to analyze, including encrypted, container-to-container, and VM-to-VM traffic
- Deep observability into all lateral traffic across hybrid cloud infrastructure, spanning virtual, physical, public cloud, and container workloads
ANALYST BLOG
Why East-West Visibility is the Key to Strengthening Your Security Posture
How Gigamon Can Help
Gigamon uniquely supports organizations by helping to eliminate security blind spots in lateral traffic, helping them to gain an effective security and monitoring posture. Regardless of the scale or complexity of an organization’s hybrid cloud infrastructure, Gigamon can access and efficiently deliver network-derived intelligence from lateral traffic across hybrid cloud infrastructure to various tools that are being used for security and performance monitoring. This enables teams to proactively analyze and respond to issues through a deep observability strategy that integrates traditional log-based tools with access to network intelligence derived from lateral traffic. This combination extends the value of existing investments in security and monitoring tools, making them more efficient and effective.
Detect Port Spoofing
Reveal concealed threat activity in lateral traffic by looking beyond port information to accurately identify which applications packets are using.
Acquire Application Observability
The integration of log-based data with application metadata intelligence enables organizations to fully understand what applications are currently running and where they can be found to identify security risks and enhance performance.
Secure Virtual Infrastructure
Gain deep observability into encrypted traffic communication between VMs and containers to eliminate blind spots across your hybrid cloud infrastructure.
“Deep Observability is important for us because we have a large segmented network. Gigamon allows us the ability to monitor our all traffic, including East-West, not just traffic coming in and out.”
“Now we know everything that’s happening on our on-premises network as opposed to only 20 percent of it. The visibility adds a lot of value. We can have everything going to a single point without having multiple tap [test access point] devices all over the place.”
“We selected Gigamon because it is the most complete, total solution that’s capable of supporting all kinds of traffic in our current environment.”
“The Gigamon platform enables us to feed all the different tool sets we have acquired and offers us X-ray capability, not only in the physical world but also in the virtual world.”
Resources
WEBINAR
Application Visibility: The Secret Life of Your Network
Eliminate up to 50% of application traffic sent to security tools without compromising security.
RESOURCE HUB
Eliminate Blind Spots With Lateral Visibility
Learn how you can gain visibility into lateral movement in the hybrid cloud.
WEBINAR
NSX-T and Container Blind Spots? What to Do.
This podcast co-hosted by VMware explains how exactly to address NSX-T and container blind spots.
Frequently Asked Questions
East-West traffic refers to the movement of packets from one server to another within a data center, or between public and private cloud platforms. East-West traffic gets its name because of the lateral movement of traffic across cloud platforms or a data center, where the data doesn’t touch the exposed perimeter of the network. This type of traffic has grown significantly in recent years as cloud platforms have become increasingly popular, making East-West traffic security a primary focus for many organizations. Security measures can help prevent threats from within your data center or cloud platform.
North-South traffic is the opposite of East-West traffic, or lateral traffic. While lateral traffic doesn’t touch the exposed perimeter of the network and occurs within a data center or across cloud platforms, North-South traffic is any traffic that goes in or out of a network. North-South traffic comes with its own set of challenges in terms of security because vulnerabilities can allow malicious actors outside your network to threaten network security. Visibility and constant monitoring are two of the most effective ways to ensure your network is secure from both internal and external threats.
East-West traffic visibility is one of the most effective ways to secure your cloud infrastructure and protect your network against internal threats. Traffic monitoring allows you to inspect all network traffic that occurs within a data center or across cloud platforms to identify any potentially malicious activity. Additional security measures prevent threats from advancing laterally within your network, plus you have granular control over the flow of data that helps you lower costs and bolster your network security.
The way East-West network traffic moves is one of the biggest challenges in terms of East-West traffic security. Because traffic is moving internally through a network, there are no perimeter checkpoints that can identify malicious activity. Increasing volumes of East-West network traffic make it even more difficult and resource-intensive to monitor traffic, and you don’t want to create a bottleneck that slows traffic down and affects performance. If securing East-West network traffic wasn’t already a big enough challenge, it becomes even more challenging when you’re working in a hybrid multi-cloud environment with multiple public and private cloud platforms.
Securing lateral traffic starts with having a solution in place that allows you to monitor all the internal traffic within your data center or cloud infrastructure. It’s also important to have security measures in place to prevent potential attackers from moving laterally within your network. Gigamon helps you monitor network traffic through the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, and Gigamon Precryption® technology offers enhanced protection against East-West threats. Every bit of data that moves laterally within your network undergoes deep packet inspection to quickly detect threats and block any malicious activity before it affects your organization.
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