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Gigamon appoints Chaim Mazal Chief Security Officer

Gigamon announced that Chaim Mazal has been named Chief Security Officer (CSO). Mr. Mazal, who recently landed on Lacework’s 50 CISOs to Watch list, joins the Gigamon executive leadership team and will report directly to President and CEO Shane Buckley. Mr. Mazal will be responsible for global security, information technology, network operations, governance, risk, compliance, and internal business systems, as well as the security of Gigamon product offerings. Prior to joining Gigamon, Mr. Mazal served in several executive leadership positions, most recently at Kandji as the senior vice president of technology and CISO. In his new position, Mr. Mazal will continue his involvement with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation and maintain his seat on several advisory boards, including Cloudflare, Gitlab, and Lacework. “As today’s threat landscape becomes ever-more dangerous, I am excited to join the Gigamon leadership team to help mitigate security threats internally and externally, as we tap into the expansive value we can deliver with our deep observability pipeline,” said Mazal. “I look forward to helping chart our course in making our customer’s hybrid cloud infrastructure more secure and resilient.” The company has also announced the appointment of Sandhya Sagar as Chief of Staff (CoS), effective immediately. In this new role, Ms. Sagar will provide strategic and operational leadership to the executive leadership team and the broader organisation. Ms. Sagar brings more than 20 years of hands-on management experience to her role and has held positions of increasing responsibility and complexity, most recently as vice president of product operations at Gigamon. This newly created role will accelerate cross-functional alignment and help the company over-achieve its business objectives. “On behalf of everyone at Gigamon, we are thrilled to welcome Sandhya and Chaim to the leadership team as we kick off 2023. Chaim’s impressive industry influence and passion for security will help us to fortify not only our internal security posture but also that of our customers, helping them to eliminate blind spots and secure their hybrid cloud infrastructure,” said Shane Buckley, president and CEO of Gigamon. “I look forward to leveraging Sandhya’s world-class operational expertise to improve alignment and focus on achieving our business objectives.” Coming off the heels of an incredibly successful growth year in which Gigamon was named the leader in the deep observability market with a 68% market share according to market intelligence firm the 650 Group, the company is well positioned to build upon its success in enabling the world’s most demanding IT organisations to manage and secure their hybrid cloud infrastructure while lowering operational overhead and complexity. To read other news stories and exclusives, see our latest issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Security Buyer @SecurityBuyer @Secbuyer Media Contact Rebecca Morpeth Spayne, Editor, Security Portfolio Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 922 Email: editor@securitybuyer.com

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Gigamon announced its participation at GITEX Technology Week 2016

Gigamon, the leader in traffic visibility solutions, announced its participation at GITEX Technology Week 2016, being held at held at Dubai World Trade Centre from October 16 – 20, 2016.

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Gigamon to showcase its Service Provider Solutions at TWME 2016

Event News, Middle East News Desk / Editor

Gigamon, the leader in traffic visibility solutions, announced its participation in Telecoms World Middle East 2016 (TWME), being held from September 27-28, 2016 in Dubai.

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Gigamon: Automated Visibility for Software Data Centres

UK News Desk / Ghyslaine Cordrey

Gigamon: Automated Visibility for Software Data Centres Gigamon collaborates with VMware to deliver enhanced Virtualised Functions in GigaSECURE platform Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO), the leader in traffic visibility solutions, announced an extension of its collaboration with VMware to enable customers to accelerate the operationalisation of the Software Defined Data Centre. New functionality in Gigamon’s GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform will enable administrators to automate the selection, filtering and forwarding of virtual traffic for monitoring and security analytics. Rich operational visibility is essential in modern security deployments as it not only delivers pervasive reach to information across the physical and virtual enterprise, but it also maximises the effectiveness of customer investments in network, application and security monitoring tools. The Gigamon solution leverages the VMware NSX service insertion framework for automated deployment of virtual components in the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform, while also enabling dynamic provisioning of visibility traffic policies within customers’ software defined data centres. “As customers operationalise the software-defined data centre they expect to be able to fully automate all aspects of service activation,” said Rod Stuhlmuller, senior director, product marketing, networking and security business unit at VMware. “We are pleased to work with Gigamon to enable our customers to automate rich operational visibility within the data centre.” Commenting on the announcement, Zeus Kerravala, Analyst at ZK Research said, “VMware NSX network virtualisation provides an excellent model for abstracting the physical infrastructure and reproducing network and security services in software; it allows customers to provision and assign policies and security services to applications in within minutes in a virtual infrastructure. The Gigamon solution with VMware NSX allows IT to automate visibility policies for sending traffic and meta-data to security and performance monitoring solutions, enabling administrators to be constantly aware of what is happening in their network.” “As customers ramp up their SDDC deployments they need to automate the deployment and orchestration of advanced operationalisation tools. Our vision is focused on leveraging VMware NSX service automation capabilities to help customers scale their deployments seamlessly,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of product management at Gigamon. GigaSECURE – A Leading Security Delivery Platform Optimised for VMware NSX-based Software-Defined Data Centres The GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform is comprised of scalable hardware and software elements that give security administrators unparalleled visibility and capability for bolstering security effectiveness. By combining the GigaSECURE platform with VMware NSX, organizations will have the ability to automate provisioning and configuration of their virtual network traffic monitoring, collection, manipulation and delivery to their network and security tools. Additional key benefits of the GigaSECURE platform include: • Infrastructure-wide reach to a broad range of network architectures and technologies via Gigamon’s GigaVUE-VM and GigaVUE nodes to feed tools with pervasive traffic visibility; • Metadata and unsampled NetFlow/IPFIX record generation from any network traffic source; • Application Session Filtering, which eliminates unwanted traffic, such as streaming video from the examined traffic flows; • SSL decryption for faster threat analysis; • Inline plus out-of-band for scaling and fault tolerance. Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO) provides active visibility into physical and virtual network traffic enabling stronger security and superior performance. Gigamon’s Visibility FabricÔ 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. [su_button url=”https://www.gigamon.com/” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#df2027″ color=”#ffffff” size=”10″ radius=”0″ icon=”icon: arrow-circle-right”]Click here to find out more about Gigamon[/su_button]

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Gigamon: GigaSECURE at GITEX 2015

UK News Desk / Ghyslaine Cordrey

Gigamon: GigaSECURE at GITEX 2015 Gigamon, the leader in traffic visibility solutions, announced its participation at GITEX Technology Week 2015, being held at the Dubai International Convention Center, from October 18-22, 2015. The company will place the spotlight of the industry’s first Security Delivery Platform – GigaSECURE and its innovative ‘Visibility Fabric’ solutions at the Middle East’s leading ICT exhibition. Senior global executives and experts will meet with customers and partners and hold demonstrations on the features and benefits of its security solutions. “With the threat landscape constantly expanding, we believe Security will be a major focus for visitors at GITEX 2015. Today, as infrastructure becomes more distributed, traffic volumes and speeds increase, and the adoption of emerging technologies continues, increased visibility into the network becomes critical for all IT departments. At the exhibition, we plan to highlight the importance of visibility in the security strategy of regional Enterprises and showcase our innovative ‘Visibility Fabric’ solutions and our new Security Delivery Platform – GigaSECURE, which is fast becoming a foundational building block of any cyber security strategy,” said Trevor Dearing, EMEA Marketing Director at Gigamon. Gigamon will place the spotlight on GigaSECURE, the industry’s first Security Delivery Platform that provides pervasive visibility of network traffic, users, applications and suspicious activity, and delivers it to multiple security devices simultaneously without impacting network availability. The direct result is that third party security appliances are more effective at protection and remediation, and the cost and complexity of security infrastructure is reduced. “GITEX Technology Week 2015 will be a great opportunity for us to meet with key decision makers and to educate the market on the importance of visibility and security solutions to organizations in the Middle East. We will have technology experts at the stand to hold product demonstrations and share our global successes with visitors attending the event,” Mr. Dearing added. Gigamon is exhibiting along with its distributor, Redington in Hall 3 Stand A3-7. Senior executives from the company will be available to meet customers and partners. [su_button url=”https://www.gigamon.com/” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#df2027″ color=”#ffffff” size=”10″ radius=”0″ icon=”icon: arrow-circle-right”]Click here to find out more about Gigamon[/su_button]

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Gigamon Unveils Visibility App for Splunk Enterprise

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Gigamon Unveils Visibility App for Splunk Enterprise Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO), the leader in traffic visibility solutions, announced the release of its new Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk, which provides Visibility Fabric health and analytics, as well as visibility and troubleshooting of Gigamon infrastructure within a Splunk environment. Complementing this, the company launched a new application for GigaVUE-FM, “FabricVUE Traffic Analyser,” which provides fabric-centric traffic visualisation that helps identify top conversations, applications and network traffic end-points. Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to collect, store, visualise, and analyse Gigamon Visibility Fabric related data. By allowing the Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk app to access a Visibility Fabric, an administrator can have full visibility and reporting across the entire Gigamon environment. Splunk Software enables automated searches that collect and store aggregated network statistics data from ports and maps within the environment. The map explorer helps an administrator to visualise the relationships within their environment. “Network complexity is fundamentally changing the way we see, react and respond to network traffic,” said Emilio Umeoka, vice president of worldwide partners, Splunk. “Having a Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk helps ensure that IT operations get deeper insights across their Gigamon environment for increased security and operational performance of their networks.” “IT silos are breaking down. The historic separation between NetOps and SecOps continues to disappear as both teams work together to ensure network performance, high availability and strong security,” said Dan Conde, Analyst at ESG. “The Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk is an excellent example of technologies that help bridge the NetOps and SecOps divide.” Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk enables granular operational insights from Gigamon networking infrastructure. Key benefits include: • First level visibility and troubleshooting of Gigamon infrastructure within Splunk; • Visibility Fabric health and analytics dashboards, including port and traffic policies health and metrics; • Track Visibility Fabric user operations for audit and compliance purposes; • Pre-integration with GigaVUE-FM 3.1 using REST APIs; and • Approved and available for free from Splunkbase “Operational visibility is becoming increasingly necessary in order to maintain operational performance and maximum security,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of product line management at Gigamon. “By leveraging Splunk solutions, our customers gain new insights and seamless capabilities that give them an optimal and actionable view of their network traffic.” FabricVUE Traffic Analyser – The Case for Fabric-Centric Visualisation Several challenges facing IT operations management revolve around the number of tools to manage identification of the top talkers in the network, and how to monitor traffic that occurs outside of tool reach. Addressing this, Gigamon today launched FabricVUE Traffic Analyser. This new, GigaVUE-FM license-based application sources IPFIX/Netflow records and uses GigaSMART traffic intelligence to analyse traffic sent, as well as excluded from tools in order to give IT operations greater visualisation of their network traffic. By doing so, this reduces mean time to resolution while giving IT operations increased visibility and control over their Visibility Fabric. Availability Both the Gigamon Visibility App for Splunk and GigaVUE Traffic Analyser are available now from authorised Gigamon channel partners worldwide. [su_button url=”https://www.gigamon.com/” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#df2027″ color=”#ffffff” size=”10″ radius=”0″ icon=”icon: arrow-circle-right”]Click here to find out more about Gigamon[/su_button]

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Gigamon to showcase at Telecoms World Middle East 2015

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Gigamon to Showcase its Service Provider Infrastructure Solutions at Telecoms World Middle East 2015 Andy Huckridge, Director of Service Provider Solutions at Gigamon to speak on the topic – ‘De-risk the triple challenge’ at the conference. Gigamon, the world’s leading provider of Traffic Visibility Networking solutions, today announced their participation in Telecoms World Middle East 2015 (TWME), being held from September 14-15, 2015 at The Ritz-Carlton DIFC, Dubai. As the silver sponsor of the event, Gigamon plans to address service providers’ triple challenge of network transformation, demonstrate its innovative and high-performance visibility solutions and meet with customers and partners at the event. Andy Huckridge, Director of Service Provider Solutions at Gigamon will speak on the topic – ‘De-risk the triple challenge’ at the conference. “As the networking landscape evolves with emerging technologies such as virtualisation, cloud computing, mobility and big data, service providers are looking to traffic visibility as an essential component in managing, analysing and securing their networks. Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture, which empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive traffic intelligence and manageability of their infrastructure, helping to lower operational cost, and leading to reduced risk and far fewer outages,” said Andy Huckridge, Director of Service Provider Solutions at Gigamon. “Telecoms World Middle East 2015, being a niche focused event for the regional telecoms sector, is an ideal platform for us to showcase our service provider infrastructure solutions, address the service provider triple challenge of network transformation and reiterate our position as a top Traffic Visibility Fabric vendor in the industry.” Through his presentation, Andy Huckridge will explain how to help Service Providers de-risk the rollout of new technologies including voice over LTE (VoLTE), carrier network virtualisation and 100Gb transport links, address this triple challenge of network transformation that the operators are currently experiencing and highlight how a Visibility Fabric can help Operators de-risk the deployment of several of these new technologies thus avoiding the resource crunch. In addition to showcasing its innovative and high-performance visibility solutions, Gigamon also plans to demonstrate how a unified tool rail enabled by Gigamon® Visibility Fabric could provide operators with the capabilities to understand both the traffic and technology interdependencies and maintain constant visibility to troubleshoot any issues. “To address the ‘triple challenge’ of voice over LTE (VoLTE), carrier network virtualisation and 100Gb transport links, Service Providers are changing the way they architect their networks and the services that will be deployed across them. Monitoring all these complexities in tandem without barriers between various monitoring systems is the only solution. At TWME 2015, Gigamon plans to highlight why the ability to effectively monitor the new technologies, as well as the inevitable and unpredictable network changes, is essential as Service Providers look for ways to reduce costs and keep customer churn to a minimum,” Mr. Huckridge added. Gigamon will be exhibiting at stand 31 at Telecoms World Middle East 2015. Senior global executives and technology experts from the company will be available at the event to meet with customers and partners and share their global success stories with them. [su_button url=”https://www.gigamon.com/” target=”blank” background=”#eb8223″ color=”#ffffff” size=”10″ radius=”0″ icon=”icon: arrow-circle-right”]For more on Gigamon click here[/su_button]

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