Take Control of Intelligence Across Your Infrastructure With Gigamon, Cribl, and Blackwood

This Gigamon Power of 3 profile takes a look at the synergy between Cribl, Blackwood, and Gigamon. Kam Amir, Director, Technology Alliances, Cribl; Ryan Mullins, Solutions Architect, Blackwood; and Chris Dittert, Strategic Alliances Director, Gigamon explain how this joint solution helps organizations secure their networks in the midst of an ever-changing threat landscape. What challenges do enterprises face when it comes to managing and optimizing network data for security and operations? Ryan Mullins, Blackwood: Enterprises face significant challenges managing and optimizing network data for security and operations, often due to organizational silos and decentralized tooling. Multiple teams with differing priorities, budgets, and preferred tools create political hurdles and a reluctance to share resources or data. Ryan Mullins, Blackwood This is compounded by a lack of centralized visibility, frequently resulting from organically grown, ad hoc tooling that addresses specific use cases but lacks a cohesive, enterprise-wide strategy. Furthermore, the sheer volume and complexity of data across on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and SaaS environments, coupled with the rapid pace of network changes, exacerbates these challenges, making effective management and optimization incredibly difficult. How do Gigamon and Cribl address these challenges together? Chris Dittert, Gigamon Chris Dittert, Gigamon: Organizations are faced with the challenge of securing their complex infrastructure in an ever-changing threat landscape. Unfortunately, this challenge includes many obstacles. The threat landscape is aggressively becoming more sophisticated; infrastructures are constantly evolving; technological advancements like new applications and IoT/OT devices present a new frontier of challenges; and a lack of consistent investment in modernizing monitoring efforts have left organizations short-handed in the battle to secure their infrastructure. Gigamon and Cribl provide a joint solution t