FireEye and Gigamon: Real-Time Threat Protection with Enhanced Traffic Visibility

The next generation of cyber attacks has changed radically and are targeted to get something valuable—sensitive, personal information, intellectual property, authentication credentials, and insider information. Each attack is multi-staged with steps to get in, to call back from the compromised network, to spread laterally, and to get valuables out. It is not enough to simply put up a firewall or intrusion prevention system because legacy solutions cannot stop advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. There is no single, static, technical answer.