Overview

GigaVUE Universal Cloud Tap (UCT) is a lightweight virtual tap that is part of the GigaVUE Cloud Suite. It is designed to acquire North-South and East-West lateral traffic within and across cloud and container environments. UCT provides comprehensive visibility into cloud traffic, ensuring that organizations can monitor and secure their cloud infrastructure effectively.

Features

Comprehensive Traffic Acquisition

• Captures North-South and East-West traffic within cloud and container environments.
• Supports Kubernetes container environments, including AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu. Agentless Operation
• Runs independently of the VMs and containers it monitors.
• Does not interfere with application performance. Ultra-Efficient Tapping
• Leverages eBPF for high-performance traffic acquisition in Linux-based environments.
• Provides plaintext visibility of encrypted traffic with Precryption. Flexible Deployment
• Deploys as a lightweight virtual tap in various cloud environments.
• Supports multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, and OpenStack. Advanced Filtering and Tunneling
• Performs basic filtering based on 5-Tuple.
• Supports tunneling protocols like L2GRE, VXLAN, and TLS-PCAPng for secure traffic forwarding. Scalability
• Scales to meet the needs of large cloud deployments.
• Offers a simple volume license pooled across all tap points, virtual platforms, and locations.

Benefits

• Enhanced Visibility: Provides full visibility into cloud traffic, eliminating blind spots.
• Operational Efficiency: Runs independently without impacting application performance, ensuring seamless monitoring.
• Security: Offers plaintext visibility of encrypted traffic, enhancing threat detection capabilities.
• Scalability: Supports large-scale cloud deployments with flexible licensing and deployment options.