NETSCOUT expands enterprise cloud compliance

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To address the complex compliance demands now facing enterprise cloud users, NETSCOUT SYSTEMS is extending its Omnis® KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes to provide continuous end-through-end monitoring enhancing attribution for audit controls and incident reports, prove zero-trust network policies, and shorten time to detect, contain, and document incidents.  

With 93% of companies now evaluating, piloting, or using Kubernetes in production, organizations encounter significant challenges when it comes to monitoring at scale for observability and security purposes.  “When enterprises deploy Kubernetes for microservice application delivery, container dynamism can create compliance gaps which inhibit the ability to meet requirements for monitoring, auditability, and incident response,” explains John Grady, Principal Analyst, Omdia.  “Enterprises need to capture the packet- and process-level activity needed for compliance reporting and investigations across their entire IT environment to manage risk, security, and ensure accountability against compliance standards.”

Without clear visibility, enterprises can miss critical activity inside their Kubernetes environments, creating blind spots that increase the risk of non-compliance with security and regulatory standards that require continuous monitoring.  Since containers often communicate with each other within a cluster, known as east-west traffic, organizations need network-level visibility, along with microservice, and container-aware telemetry to detect anomalies, lateral movement, and policy violations in real time.  These capabilities also provide detailed packet- and container-level evidence, which is critical for understanding what happened, where, and when.

“Continuous monitoring is more than a best practice; it’s a risk mitigator and compliance enabler,” adds Thor Wallace, Chief Information Officer, NETSCOUT.  “Visibility into Kubernetes cloud environments is important because it provides the insights needed to ensure service levels and customer expectations are met, while also helping support our compliance efforts.”

By supporting the need for visibility into Cloud-native environments like Kubernetes, NETSCOUT provides the information needed for organizations to demonstrate ongoing assurance that systems are secure, auditable, and resilient for regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements.