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Gigamon, a leading deep observability company, has announced the promotion of Simon Oliver to the role of director of channel sales, Asia Pacific, as it deepens support for partners and customers across a region facing mounting cybersecurity threats and increased complexity in managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

COMPANY NEWS:

• Company recognised for aggressive technical innovation and advanced features that focus on a platform solution, offering broad functionality and use case support
• Report highlights BeyondTrust’s strengths in securing cloud environments by enforcing least privilege access, identifying identity-based risks, and mitigating misconfigurations

When the Australian National University experienced a data breach a few years ago, it was a big wake up call.

Top partners help organisations tackle cybersecurity and hybrid cloud management challenges with the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline

Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, has honoured its top-performing APAC partners at its 2025 Catalyst Partner Program Awards. Recognised for their pivotal role in enhancing hybrid cloud security, these partners are instrumental in delivering the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline to enterprises across the region.

Illumio Inc., the breach containment leader, announced the appointment of Karl Van den Bergh as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). A proven technology and marketing executive, Van den Bergh brings over 25 years of leadership experience driving innovation, building market-leading brands, and accelerating cloud growth at global technology companies.

GUEST OPINION:  Gigamon is recognized for its continuing innovation to meet evolving customer needs amid growing demand for its deep observability pipeline solution

GUEST RESEARCH :  CISOs around the world acknowledge waning confidence in securing today’s hybrid cloud infrastructure, shifting focus toward gaining visibility into all data-in-motion

• 39 percent of security teams in Australia report they were unable to detect a data breach with existing tools
• 71 percent of respondents in Australia believe that Zero Trust will be mandated by the government in the next two years
• 92 percent of Australian respondents agree that visibility into encrypted traffic is critical to cloud security

GUEST OPINION: As hybrid cloud infrastructure becomes the backbone of the modern enterprise, the threat landscape is evolving faster than ever. Increasingly sophisticated attackers, hidden vulnerabilities, and complex regulatory mandates are making it harder for IT and security teams to ensure robust protection across this intricate environment. The 2024 Gigamon Hybrid Cloud Security Survey reveals that key concerns among Security and IT leaders include unexpected blind spots, increasing attack complexity, and the rapidly shifting regulatory landscape. In fact, only 1 in 5 Australian organisations were able to effectively remediate a live threat.

COMPANY NEWS: Gigamon, a leading deep observability company, announced a new Power of 3 offering with longstanding partners ExtraHop and World Wide Technology (WWT).

GUEST OPINION: As the world focuses on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Australian organisations must brace themselves for a different kind of competition – one that takes place in the cyber arena. These games provide a prime target for cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike, aiming to exploit the massive global attention and the surge in digital interactions during the event.

GUEST OPINION by Chaim Mazal, Chief Security Officer of Gigamon: Global events are particularly vulnerable due to the rise of geopolitical tensions. Whenever nation-states have a reason to stir the pot, it is essential to take extra precautions. Furthermore, in the last 12 months, only 1 in 3 organisations were able to detect they’d been breached, which is particularly concerning amid the Olympic organising committee’s announcement that cyber threats will increase tenfold this summer.

So where does the risk arise? One area, in particular, is from cloud-based streaming services. In a new era of live TV, enabling viewers to watch on-demand on any device in any location, bringing additional traffic to the organisation’s networks when viewed on a work device or network. However, with any cloud-based service comes risk.

All cloud traffic is automatically encrypted and despite its good intent to keep data safe, research has found that 93% of malware hides behind encrypted traffic. Once a threat actor breaches perimeter security, they hide behind encrypted traffic for weeks or even months making visibility into all network traffic essential. This includes North to South traffic – traffic that flows from outside to inside an organisation and East to West traffic – traffic traversing laterally within the organisation enabling threat actors to hide and locate sensitive data wherever it may live in the network.

An example of how this could play out is through social engineering techniques where a threat actor may leverage a phishing campaign to manipulate a user to click a link to watch highlights from a team or athlete's latest routine/match etc.

In reality, once clicked it opens the door to the user's information and potentially many doors after that, including their company’s network the next time they log into its virtual private network (VPN) or access the company’s Wi-Fi. When it comes down to it, risk is inevitable, however, visibility into all data in motion can be the difference maker between a bad actor walking away with highly sensitive data or being caught in their tracks before successful exfiltration.

GUEST RESEARCH: In a stark reminder of the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, Gigamon, a leader in deep observability, has released its 2024 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey. The findings paint a concerning picture: organisations worldwide remain unprepared for sophisticated cyber threats, with a notable increase in undetected breaches. The annual survey, which gathered insights from over 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, the UK, and the USA, indicates a significant decline in detection and response capabilities compared to the previous year.

COMPANY NEWS: Gigamon, a leading deep observability company, recently hosted its ANZ Partner Awards ceremony at the W Hotel Melbourne. The event brought together industry leaders and partners to celebrate excellence and innovation in the region's cybersecurity and networking sector.

Proven channel and sales executive to lead channel-first strategy in the growing region

GUEST OPINION:  Reflecting on 2023, clearly it was another pivotal year in security technology. Cybersecurity leaders continued to face an ever expanding and evolving threat landscape, an ongoing proliferation of AI tools, and advancing migration to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure All while contending with the highest rate of data breaches to date.

Gigamon celebrates 20^th anniversary, honours top partners that enable customers to gain the deep observability required to better secure and manage their hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure

As I reflect on 2023, it’s clear it was another pivotal year in security technology.

GUEST OPINION:  A huge cybersecurity threat exists because threat actors are hiding in one of the very mechanisms created to protect us — encryption. That’s why my company has launched a breakthrough cybersecurity technology for the world, specifically designed to eliminate this blind spot.

COMPANY NEWS:  Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, has been recognised again as the leading vendor in the deep observability market, according to a newly published report by market research firm 650 Group.