Key Capabilities / Features

Gigamon PrecryptionTM technology helps organizations detect threats they never knew existed by capturing plaintext cloud traffic prior to encryption. Gigamon Precryption technology addresses a range of advanced security requirements and:
- Easily enables InfoSec, Network, and CloudOps teams to gain full visibility into encrypted traffic across cloud, VM, and container workloads.
- Seamlessly works with modern encryption methods, including TLS 1.3 or TLS 1.2 with perfect-forward secrecy (PFS) enabled, and legacy encryption methods, including TLS 1.2 without PFS.
- Fully supports organizations with sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) by keeping private communications private, masking this traffic from view to maintain data security, compliance, and governance.
- Conveniently architects the necessary foundation for Zero Trust and boosts traditional security tool effectiveness by a factor of 5x or more.
- Dramatically reduces the operational complexity associated with decryption by eliminating cumbersome private key management for key sharing, passing, and library updates.
- Efficiently offloads TLS decryption overhead from cloud, security, and observability tools, greatly boosting their capacity and performance.

How we are different

- Gigamon PrecryptionTM technology is a new way to manage encrypted traffic. New to the GigaVUE Cloud Suite as of September 2023, it provides unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across cloud, virtual, and container workloads running across hybrid cloud infrastructure. This advanced technology offers, for the first time, an automated solution that brings plaintext visibility to encrypted traffic (where 93% of malware hides), enabling IT and security professionals around the world to capture cloud traffic before encryption or after decryption. It reveals previously concealed threat activity, including lateral movement, malware distribution, and data exfiltration, and eliminates the need to use cumbersome decryption methods that require managing and maintaining decryption keys.

- Gigamon most recently added a new “Selective Precryption” feature to the technology. This addition allows users to optionally exempt specific, ultra-sensitive and highly-trustly workloads, helping organizations avoid compliance pitfalls from policies and standards which govern the handling of encrypted data. Additionally, it improves performance and allows users to remove workloads that don’t require plaintext visibility, whether because the workload is low risk, or because there are already sufficient security controls in place for the given workload.

- Precryption technology delivers defense-in-depth that companies now view as essential: A recent survey of 1,000 IT and security leaders revealed that 80 percent agree that deep observability–delivering network-derived intelligence to log-based security tooling–is now a board-level priority. Gigamon uniquely addresses cloud security challenges with Precryption technology, a new addition to its deep Observability Pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence to traditional cloud, security and observability tools, eliminating security blind spots and enabling organizations to better secure and manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure.