Efficiently Identify andSecure Assets with
Gigamon and Forescout

Overview

A foundational element of security is knowing what ison the network and how each asset is behaving. Newdevices, such as unmanaged laptops, smartphones,
tablets, smart device, and IoT devices join networks
nearly every hour. The task of gaining complete
network intelligence across all your assets for security
postures has become a challenge as infrastructures
migrate to the cloud and become more complex.
Because of these challenges, organizations are looking
for a flexible solution that allows them to easily accessintelligence from multiple sources and centralizedelivery to any analysis technology. Accomplishing thisminimizes blind spots and improves security hygiene.

The Solution
The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline accesses
traffic across a hybrid cloud infrastructure anddelivers network-derived intelligence to the tools anorganization uses to secure and monitor performance.
The Forescout platform consolidates multiple feedsof data from customer environments to provide asset
intelligence and control for all network-connectedassets. Forescout combines Gigamon with otherstreams of intelligence for efficient identification ofassets on the network.

Key Features
The Challenge
An increasing number of assets are joining networks
as organizations try to drive a better, more effective
experience for customers. These assets significantly
expand the attack surface and are invisible to many
security tools because they are complex and often
misidentified. Continuous asset visibility is now necessary
given the risk and constant changes occurring with
devices being added, removed, relocated and relocated.
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Forescout’s agentless technology identifies, protects,and ensures compliance of all assets. Forescout
analyzes traffic and integrates with network
infrastructure to discover assets as they connect tothe network. After discovering an asset, Forescout
uses both passive and active methods to classify thedevice according to its type and ownership. Based on
its classification, Forescout assesses the asset security

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Remote Sites

Internet

Public Cloud

GigaVUE-OS
Forescout Platform

Routers

Clustering

Spine
Switches

Leaf Switches

Virtualized
Server Farm

Flow Mapping®

GigaSMART®

De-duplication

Masking

SSL/TLSDecryption

Application
Packet Filtering

Application
Filtering Intelligence

LoadBalancing

Figure 1. The Gigamon and Forescout joint solution.

posture and allows organizations to set policies,
enforcing the specific behavior the asset is permitted
while connected to a network.
The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline complements
the other streams of intelligence Forescout analyzes byoffering a unified view of data in motion across hybrid
or multi-cloud infrastructures. It efficiently gathers datafrom multiple sources, optimizes it automatically, anddelivers it seamlessly to the Forescout platform.
The joint solution offers:• Scalability: Organizations can ensure that all theirtools, including Forescout, have complete visibility
without the creation of blind spots as asets join thenetwork and infrastructure changes occur.

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• Efficiency: The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline
can filter irrelevant network trafficfrom the flows
analyzed by the Forescout Platform. Aggregated traffic
flows can be de-duplicated to help ensure that eachpacket is analyzed only once by the Forescout Platform.

• Compliance: For industries where certain identifiableinformation, such as patient data or credit card
numbers, cannot be disclosed to network operations
teams, Gigamon provides the ability to mask data
within packets before forwarding them to Forescout.

• Complete Asset Intelligence: With more encrypted
traffic traveling across the network, analyzing andidentifying application details can be challenging.
The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline offers thecapability to decrypt appropriate network traffic andforward it to Forescout Platform for analysis before
re-encrypting the traffic for onward delivery.

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About Forescout

About Gigamon

Forescout Technologies, Inc., a global cybersecurity
leader, continuously identifies, protects and helps
ensure the compliance of all managed and unmanaged
cyber assets – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT. For more than 20years, Fortune 100 organizations and government
agencies have trusted Forescout to provide vendoragnostic, automated cybersecurity at scale.

Gigamon® offers a deep observability pipeline that
efficiently delivers network-derived intelligence tocloud, security, and observability tools. This helps
eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs,
enabling you to better secure and manage your hybrid
cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has served more than
4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent
of Fortune 100 enterprises, 9 of the 10 largest mobile
network providers, and hundreds of governments
and educational organizations. To learn more, please
visit gigamon.com.

The Forescout Platform delivers comprehensive
capabilities for network security, risk and exposure
management, and threat detection and response. Withseamless context sharing and workflow orchestration
via ecosystem partners, it enables customers to more
effectively manage cyber risk and mitigate threats.

For more information on Gigamon and Forescout please visit
gigamon.com | forescout.com

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