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Keysight to offer packet-level visibility into workloads in containers

Keysight to offer packet-level visibility into workloads in containers

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Alert Logic, a leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, announced major updates to the industry’s only Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) for containers

Keysight, the test, measurement and visibility vendor, has extended the Ixia CloudLens visibility platform to offer packet-level visibility into workloads in containers and Kubernetes clusters.

Containers are becoming more popular in cloud environments. Gartner reports that ‘container popularity will continually increase over the next 18 to 24 months’ and that by 2020, more than 50% of global enterprises will be running containerised applications in production, up from less than 20% today.

Ixia CloudLens, a SaaS solution available online 24/7, delivers end-to-end cloud visibility. CloudLens delivers packet visibility into containers and Kubernetes clusters across cloud platforms including AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

“The lack of granular access to cloud traffic creates blind spots which could compromise application performance or security, resulting in degraded customer experience and increased network security risk,” said Scott Register, Vice President, Product Management for Keysight’s Ixia Solutions Group. “By expanding CloudLens support to containers, we offer the packet-level visibility that security and network teams need to diagnose critical security and performance issues in their container-based environments all in one platform.”

The CloudLens platform was designed from the ground up to retain the benefits of the cloud – elastic scale, flexibility and agility, while enabling security, analytics and forensics tools to acquire the needed packet-level data.

Now, CloudLens enables packet visibility into workloads on physical, virtual, cloud, container or in Kubernetes clusters maximising the organisation’s existing investment in Application Performance Management (APM), Network Performance Management (NPM) and Intrusion Detection (IDS) tools.

CloudLens helps customers gain visibility into containers and Kubernetes environments on the same host or across hosts – by providing traffic forwarding to cloud monitoring and security tools to proactively detect intrusions and analyse security threats. Its unique GUI allows users to easily set-up and manage their cloud monitoring environment for any cloud and Kubernetes cluster from a single pane of glass.

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