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Gigamon’s inline bypass
threat prevention helps to
secure the network
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How serious are the security
implications of the introduction of
more data over faster networks?
odern enterprises rely on high-
speed networks to increase
productivity, find innovative
solutions and enhance collaboration.
However, these increased network data
rates and resulting network upgrades can
have major consequences for security
administrators, especially those who rely on
best-of-breed inline threat prevention tools.
When you introduce more data over faster
networks such as 10GB, 40GB and 100GB
your existing security tools may not have the
capacity to handle these high speeds and
therefore will not be able to analyse all of
the network traffic for threats.
Gigamon, the company leading the
convergence of security and network
operations, is offering a solution to this
conundrum inline bypass threat prevention.
Part of the GigaSECURE Security Delivery
Platform – a next-generation network
packet broker that has been purpose-built
for security – the inline bypass tool aims
to increase security without compromising
network availability. It works by enabling
operational staff to select and distribute
specific traffic of interest across multiple
inline security tools.
GIGASECURE
SECURITY DELIVERY
PLATFORM IS
ABLE TO COLLECT,
AGGREGATE,
PRE-FILTER AND
DECRYPT DATA
FROM ALL ROUND
THE NETWORK AND
EVEN THE CLOUD.
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This also results in the degradation of the
security tools’ performance and renders
them ineffective. The end result is that not
all the hidden threats in the high-speed
networks are detected.
Sam Kumarsamy, Senior Product Marketing
Manager at Gigamon
What are the most important
security benefits the GigaSECURE
Security Delivery Platform offers
to organisations?
GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform is
able to collect, aggregate, pre-filter and
decrypt data from all round the network and
even the cloud. It then delivers just the right
data to just the right security tools as well
as being used for network and application
performance monitoring tools.
On the left-hand side (as shown on the next
page) you can see that the connections
for this security platform provide pervasive
visibility across an on-premise data centre,
remote site, a virtualised infrastructure and
public cloud.
A diagram of inline tools. Kumarsamy says
these present challenges for both network
and security teams
Here, Sam Kumarsamy, Senior Product
Marketing Manager at Gigamon, outlines
the main implications of introducing more
data over faster networks as well as the key
benefits of the inline bypass functionality.
This new configuration gives security
solutions broad network visibility, generation
of and access to metadata, application
session filtering and SSL traffic decryption as
well as fault tolerance and scale.
The results are a more effective security
architecture with an improved security
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