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How do you mitigate a
cyberattack in 6.7 nanoseconds?
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igamon was founded on the
revolutionary idea of providing
pervasive visibility into company
data across the entire network.
Its vision is to make it easier for
companies to secure, manage and
understand their data in motion,
enabling stronger security and network
performance and simultaneously
reducing complexity, risks and costs.
Intelligent CIO spoke to Adrian Rowley,
Technical Director EMEA for Gigamon,
about the best ways of dealing with the
modern data centre.
Are you struggling to keep up?
It’s a sad fact but many cybersecurity
professionals have been forced to come
to terms with the inevitability of security
breaches resulting from two key factors.
Security teams face greater challenges
in combating data breaches due to the
speed of data traversing networks, which
leaves insufficient time for decision-
making; and the continuous growth in
attackers and the ecosystem of resources
available to break through standard
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defences and propagate undetected
across network infrastructures.
The traditional security focus of
instrumenting networks for prevention,
and concentrating resources on a
perimeter that can no longer be defined,
is increasingly ineffective. Organisations
are also hampered by limited visibility,
costs, growing infrastructure complexity
and reliance on manual processes.
At 100Gb network speeds, the inter-
packet gap of 6.7 nanoseconds
surpasses an organisation’s ability to
perform intelligent application security,
threat detection or inspection. Security
Operations teams and technology are
overwhelmed in trying to manage and
mitigate an increasing volume and
variety of incidents. This machine-
to-human fight favours the attacker,
leaving organisations disadvantaged.
How best to address this critical
situation? There’s considerable
industry recognition of the need for
integrated and automated security
architectures that help to mitigate
risks. According to Gartner: “Strategies
for business continuity and disaster
recovery will fundamentally change as
enterprise and information are spread
everywhere. Continuous visibility and
understanding of systems, services,
assets and partners is needed as digital
business infrastructure will be in a state
of constant flux.”
Dan Cummins, senior analyst at
451 Research, said: “Siloed security
systems and data cannot accelerate
or provide a basis for advanced
prevention, detection and remediation
activities, nor for process-driven
security management. To address
current threats and unseen risks ahead,
organisations need to move towards a
unified, collaborative and data-powered
security framework that enables shorter
cycle times for incident response and
resolution while ensuring network
performance and business continuity.”
How to react?
The last few years have seen an
increase in security tools, and there’s
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