Protect Containerized Environments

While Kubernetes is one of the biggest names in terms of container orchestration, it doesn’t come without security risks. There are a handful of security concerns you have to consider with Kubernetes, and it’s important to devise a plan to address those security risks before they negatively impact your organization.

Misconfigurations are some of the biggest Kubernetes security concerns, as well as insider threats from compromised pods. Kubernetes also relies on some third-party components, opening up your container environment to greater security concerns.

Using Kubernetes security tools is one of the most effective ways to enhance Kubernetes security and mitigate threats before they impact your organization. GigaVUE Cloud Suite enhances Kubernetes container security by giving you high-level visibility of your containers and traffic flows. You can access and aggregate traffic from containers across multiple cloud platforms, optimizing that traffic and using the insights you gain to enhance security. Gigamon Precryption technology allows you to eliminate lateral blind spots, further protecting you from security threats.

GigaVUE Enriched Metadata (GEM) for managed Kubernetes service provides deeper situational awareness to reduce MTTD and MTTR by correlating application metadata with key service and cluster details.

GigaVUE Cloud Suite is designed to work with a large number of cloud platforms and related tools, including some of the security and observability tools you might already be using. GigaVUE Cloud Suite is also designed for scalability, which means you won’t have to start using another tool if your cloud operations grow or shrink. If you have any questions about how Gigamon cloud solutions work with the security and observability tools you’re already using, you can always reach out to our sales team.

There are many tools and processes to use to secure your Kubernetes environment, but securing the Kubernetes API server, encrypting communication, and monitoring workloads are the most crucial steps. Outside of following best practices for secure configuration, leveraging a tool like GigaVUE Cloud Suite can provide the deep observability needed to effectively monitor the complex Kubernetes environment and ensure that security risks are being detected.

Gigamon utilizes the deep observability pipeline to secure East-West traffic in Kubernetes by leveraging deep-packet inspection and precryption technology to eliminate lateral traffic blind spots and address security threats quickly.

Deep observability is critical to having a meaningful understanding of network traffic in any environment, but it is especially necessary in Kubernetes environments because of the complex and scalable nature of these systems. In order to effectively identify security threats, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies within your Kubernetes environment, you need the deep observability capabilities provided by Gigamon. Features like Gigamon Precryption, application metadata intelligence and multi-cloud traffic aggregation are key to manage security and compliance within Kubernetes. This has become even more important as generative AI has rapidly escalating cybersecurity complexity within these cloud environments, as our Hybrid Cloud Security Survey shows.

Using GigaVUE Cloud Suite within your Kubernetes environment allows for enhanced observability and scalable visibility into east-west container traffic, which can significantly improve how you handle monitoring across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The core benefits of GigaVUE for Kubernetes include elimination of blind spots, scalability, traffic optimization and packet de-duplication, and insightful metadata extraction. All of these benefits aim to provide comprehensive, precise and real-time visibility to improve your monitoring processes.