Gigamon Wins 2025 Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Cutting-Edge AI Security Solution of the Year
Gigamon AI Traffic Intelligence recognized for delivering real-time visibility into AI and LLM activity, revealing shadow AI, and strengthening cyber defenses with network-derived insights
Santa Clara, Calif. – Oct. 28, 2025 — Gigamon, a leader in deep observability, today announced it has been named Cutting Edge AI Security Solution of the Year by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) for its innovative AI Traffic Intelligence, an integral capability of Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) within the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. AI Traffic Intelligence provides real-time visibility into Gen AI and LLM traffic, helping organizations uncover shadow AI and strengthen cyber defenses. Gigamon was recognized in the 13th Cyber Defense Magazine’s Annual InfoSec Awards during CyberDefenseCon 2025.
GenAI Presents a Critical Visibility Challenge, Gigamon Delivers the Solution
As GenAI workloads accelerate, organizations are contending with surging data volumes, expanding attack surfaces, and growing blind spots that limit threat detection and policy enforcement. According to the Gigamon 2025 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey of more than 1,000 Security and IT leaders, one in three report that network traffic has more than doubled from AI workloads, while more than half say their existing tools cannot keep pace with modern threats. With AI Traffic Intelligence, organizations gain real-time visibility into GenAI and LLM activity from more than 30 leading engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek. This visibility helps identify shadow AI, unsanctioned or unmanaged AI usage, and supports stronger, policy-driven governance to safeguard data and control AI spend.
“As AI adoption accelerates across every industry, visibility into AI and LLM traffic is now essential,” said Sarah Banks, vice president of product management at Gigamon. “AI Traffic Intelligence, an integral capability of our Application Metadata Intelligence, gives organizations the insight needed to detect threats, ensure compliance, and safeguard data across hybrid cloud environments. This recognition reinforces the pivotal role of deep observability in addressing the new visibility challenges created by the rapid rise of AI.”
“Gigamon embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution, and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
Deep Observability Pipeline Delivers Complete Visibility
AI Traffic Intelligence is a core capability within Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) and part of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers network-derived telemetry—packets, flows, and metadata—and correlates this data with logs from security, cloud, and observability tools. This deep observability empowers organizations to see and secure data in motion, detect threats in lateral and encrypted traffic, enforce compliance, and reduce the cost and complexity of protecting hybrid cloud infrastructure.
AI Traffic Intelligence enables organizations to:
- Gain real-time insights into GenAI and LLM activity across public, private, virtual, and container environments
- Detect and manage shadow AI usage to reduce risk and improve oversight
- Track AI usage patterns to strengthen governance and control AI-related spend
- Empower Security and IT teams with trusted, network-derived telemetry for faster, informed decision-making
For More Information
Learn more about AI Traffic Intelligence and discover how Gigamon is redefining deep observability in the AI era:
- Visit our AI solutions page: gigamon.com/ai
- Explore our blog, “Advancing Deep Observability: Gigamon AI Vision Comes to Life”
About Gigamon
Gigamon® offers a deep observability pipeline that efficiently delivers network-derived telemetry to cloud, 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 serves 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.
About Cyber Defense Awards
This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s 13th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2025, on our Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these and other prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe, Dino Boukouris of AltitudeCyber and with much appreciation to emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG and David DeWalt of NightDragon. Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2025:
https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2025/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2025, here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2025/.
About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited special editions exclusively for the RSA, BlackHat and Cyber Defense Conferences. Learn more about us at https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.
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