Cs Lockheed Martin
Cs Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin
Expands AWS Public
Cloud Presence
to Drive Innovation
with Gigamon
Challenge
Enhance cloud visibility to improve performance,
security, and regulatory compliance
We brought Gigamon in to augment
traffic mirroring in our existing Solution
About Lockheed Martin Corporation subset of traffic to other regions. GigaVUE® V Series
virtualized visibility nodes deliver feeds to application
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed and performance monitoring tools, as well as its Open
Martin Corporation is a global security and Source-based custom security platform.
aerospace company that employs approximately
114,000 people worldwide and focuses on research,
design, development, manufacture, integration
and sustainment of advanced technology systems, Benefit
products, and services. With an annual revenue
of $65.4 billion in 2020, Lockheed Martin provides With GigaVUE® Cloud Suite for AWS in place, the
innovative solutions for aeronautics, missiles and fire Lockheed Martin security team has deep observability
control, rotary and mission systems, and space. into its AWS environments to ensure security, which
otherwise would have been both incomplete and
costly. The security team can utilize a common
set of tools to monitor both its physical and virtual
Business Challenge environments. This consistent approach helped
Lockheed Martin ease its transition to the cloud,
Lockheed Martin is continually striving to accelerate empowering staff with familiar tools and processes
its business and manufacturing processes, and its without the need for additional training. The Gigamon
cloud strategy plays an important role in helping the solution has benefited the network performance
firm scale its computing, analytics, and collaboration monitoring team as well by enabling it to troubleshoot
processes. The organization supplements its issues. The data and tools fed by Gigamon enable staff
onpremises infrastructure footprint with public cloud to debug issues faster and perform root cause analysis,
services from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Network saving time and reducing operational expenses. The
visibility is fundamental to ensuring performance, Gigamon solution provides a strong cost-effective
security, and compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity foundation to enable Lockheed Martin to expand its
Model Certification (CMMC) and other Department of cloud presence and easily support additional traffic
Defense regulations. The organization was seeking to loads, applications, and security tools in the cloud as
supplement the visibility provided by AWS native tools needs evolve.
to build insight into its full security and management
stack.
Resolution
After considering several options, Lockheed Martin
deployed GigaVUE® Cloud Suite for AWS to acquire,
optimize, and deliver traffic to its monitoring and
security tools. The Gigamon Deep Observability
Pipeline, the solution was the only option that enabled
the firm to make multiple copies of traffic to be
inspected by multiple tools, all of which reside in
AWS. Lockheed Martin has tailored the solution to its
environment to deliver multiple full traffic feeds to tools
in certain destinations, as well as filtered feeds with a
About Gigamon
Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that harnesses actionable network-level intelligence to amplify
the power of observability tools. This powerful combination enables IT organisations to assure security and
compliance governance, speed root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower operational
overhead associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures. The result: modern enterprises
realize the full transformational promise of the cloud. Gigamon serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide,
including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, nine of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and
hundreds of governments and educational organisations worldwide. To learn more, please visit gigamon.com.
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