Gigamon is preparing to release a new GigaSMART traffic intelligence application that provides visibility into SSL sessions, thereby allowing deeper insight into infrastructure blind spots to help expose hidden threats or performance issues. The company will also release a number of enhancements to its ‘Active Visibility for Multi-Tiered Security’ architecture detailed earlier this year, as well as associated upgrades to its Fabric Manager, which will centrally administer all of these capabilities across the Visibility Fabric.
“SSL sessions are either invisible to security and performance management tools or degrade performance by up to 80% if they are processed by the tools,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of product line management at Gigamon. “By delivering SSL decryption as a common service to security and performance management tools, the tools can return to full performance. Further, because SSL is at the heart of today’s enterprise infrastructure, endpoints and DMZ servers are potentially exposed to attacks without the right level of traffic visibility.”
Gigamon notes that its GigaSMART applications can be ‘service chained’ together so that multiple visibility services can be performed in combination to address the specific needs of a range of vertical markets.
