Gain Control and Observability into Microsoft Azure Cloud Hosted Applications White Paper

Improve Visibility Across Azure Workloads

This white paper examines visibility and security challenges that arise when organizations move applications and workloads to Microsoft Azure. It describes how the GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ acquires, processes, and distributes traffic from VMs and containers across cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Key Topics Covered:

• Cloud traffic acquisition, processing, and distribution
• Security challenges for enterprise cloud resources
• Legacy visibility and security approaches
• GigaVUE Cloud Suite architecture for Microsoft Azure

Technical Highlights:

• Acquires VM and container traffic through G-TAP^®, Universal Cloud Tap (UCT), or infrastructure mirroring
• Aggregates, selects, and distributes traffic through GigaVUE^® V Series nodes
• Eliminates duplicate packets and removes irrelevant protocol headers
• Masks payload data and modifies headers to obfuscate sensitive or identifying information
• Detects more than 3,000 applications through DPI
• Transforms flows into application metadata selected from almost 6,000 protocols, applications, and user behaviors
• Uses Azure APIs and open REST APIs to discover workloads and scale visibility nodes