Application Intelligence
Visualize applications, filter application traffic, and extract contextual metadata.
What Is Application Intelligence?
Application intelligence is the power to identify, filter, and enrich application data coming from your hybrid cloud. It directs precise application and metadata flows to security and observability tools for insight into:
- Identify traffic from dozens of commonly used AI applications
- Shadow IT and other unauthorized activities
- Anomalous application or user behavior
- Potential user experience issues
Gigamon Application Intelligence gives NetOps, CloudOps, and security teams full visibility into applications, including AI applications, running in data centers and public clouds. Therefore, you can maintain consistently strong security across your environment plus get to the root causes of vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks.
Application Visualization
Application Visualization, a feature of Application Filtering Intelligence and Application Metadata Intelligence, leverages deep packet inspection to identify more than 4,000 common and proprietary applications, sharing this information with your tools. Drill down to view application usage, patterns, and network resource consumption.
Application Filtering Intelligence
Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) directs traffic by application, application family, or application tags to the appropriate tools for more than 4,000 apps. Using simple flow control, you can pass specific traffic or drop irrelevant application traffic before it reaches your tools, saving storage and processing resources. Use cases show that AFI can increase efficiency and capacity by up to 80 percent.
Application Metadata Intelligence
Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) generates rich contextual information about your applications and protocols, which can be sent to your security and observability tools for analysis. Leveraging deep packet inspection, AMI extracts and summarizes data from nearly 6,000 attributes across more than 4,000 apps, empowering your tools to quickly identify suspicious activities and performance issues.
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Application Intelligence Benefits
Application Intelligence technology empowers your business with deep, detailed visibility into application data across your network.
- Automatically discover applications—both authorized and unauthorized—including GenAI on your network
- Gain complete visibility into GenAI usage—empowering informed policy decisions and data governance
- Drill down into individual applications, application components, and protocols to identify the sources of performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities
- Improve tool efficiency by directing only relevant application traffic to the appropriate tools for analysis
Managing and Securing DX Applications
Accelerate your digital transformation journey by giving teams and tools the intelligent application visibility needed to monitor and secure modern digital applications.
- Isolate and extract application and component traffic across multiple tiers for monitoring
- Provide intelligent application metadata to analytics tools, enabling faster detection of customer experience, application performance, and security-related issues
- Send only relevant traffic to the appropriate tools to reduce load and increase effectiveness
Detecting and Remediating Threats
With Application Intelligence, security tools are armed with more of the right data to perform their functions. You benefit from faster detection, isolation, and remediation of threats and noncompliant activities.
- Provide contextual data to help tools detect threats, such as lateral movements of malware
- Impede port spoofing attacks by precisely identifying app traffic via deep packet inspection
- Shine a light on shadow IT and shadow AI usage by revealing hidden and unauthorized applications
- Understand how AI tools are being used to prevent accidental exposure of confidential data
Improving Tool Efficiency and Performance
The growing volume of application traffic can overwhelm network and security tools, impacting tool performance and effectiveness. Application Intelligence helps your tool ecosystem run more efficiently.
- Drop irrelevant application traffic before it’s sent to tools, saving storage and processing resources
- Focus teams and tools on mission-critical applications that warrant extra scrutiny
- Feed granular application performance and behavior data to analytics tools, helping IT teams quickly find and fix performance issues
“Cloud visibility is extremely important to us, and Gigamon allows us to understand our traffic and potential threats and gives us the ability to be proactive with any threat intelligence we get.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Application Intelligence provides deep observability into application data across your hybrid cloud environment. Gigamon Application Filtering Intelligence enhances security, optimizes application performance, and reduces tool costs by ensuring only relevant traffic is processed. With Gigamon Application Intelligence, NetOps, CloudOps, and SecOps teams gain better visibility into applications, helping them detect unauthorized activity, identify anomalies, and improve the user experience.
Application Intelligence enhances security and efficiency by providing deep visibility into network traffic. Key components of Gigamon Application Intelligence include:
- Deep packet inspection is capable of identifying more than 4,000 apps, generating close to 6,000 L4 – L7 attributes.
- Seamless integration with GigaVUE® HC Series and GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ ensures compatibility with existing solutions.
- Security and performance optimization help isolate shadow IT and rogue applications, detect excessive bandwidth usage, and optimize traffic flows.
- Application filtering is critical for large organizations to prevent bandwidth bottlenecks and security blind spots.
Gigamon Application Filtering Intelligence is designed to support a Zero Trust architecture by identifying potential security threats before they can impact your network. Typically, you can only see basic details of encrypted packets that travel through your network. Gigamon enables deep packet inspection to decrypt and analyze network traffic before securely re-encrypting it. By integrating with your existing security tools, Gigamon Application Filtering Intelligence helps detect and mitigate threats in real time, ensuring stronger protection for your network.
Gigamon Application Intelligence supports more than 4,000 applications, using deep packet inspection to automatically identify the apps running on your network. Designed for seamless integration, Gigamon solutions work with third-party security and monitoring tools, as well as other Gigamon products, without requiring reconfiguration of your hybrid cloud. Gigamon also uses Application Metadata Intelligence to give you insights that simplify security and troubleshooting. This deep observability across all your applications allows you to ensure security and efficiency across every app. If you are unsure whether a specific app is supported, contact our sales team for more information.
Gigamon Application Intelligence is designed to be simple and easy to integrate, but understanding its full capabilities can take time. If you want a firsthand look at how the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline can help you make your cloud applications more efficient and secure, you can request a demo with a Gigamon expert. During the demo, we will walk you through how Application Filtering Intelligence works and showcase our tools in action. If you have any questions or would like to book a demo, contact our sales team today.
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