How Much It Can Help in 2024
The ‘Why’ of Network Visibility Seems Obvious!
The good news is: very few companies still ask Keysight partners if, or why they need network visibility. The bad news, and reason they’ve stopped asking, is that the answers are obvious.
Keysight typically classifies and quantifies the need for visibility in terms of performance, or uptime, cybersecurity risk, and enabling modernization or digital transformation.
Key facts and figures about IT’s challenges with these initiatives include:
- According to a recent report from Blackberry, 7,500 new malware threats get created every day
- 2023 saw a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021
- 60% of corporate data now resides in the cloud – where IT may not fully control it (Exploding Topics)
If these numbers alone weren’t compelling enough, a front-page outage like the recent CrowdStrike firmware update debacle occasionally brings global business to a screeching halt [and subjects 8M+ users to the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD)].
Suffice it to say no one dealing with these issues doubts the need to see what’s happening. But how much value does visibility really add?
Productivity Gains Surprise
Every business manages its own unique network, data center, and digital attack surface. That makes it hard to quantify ‘average’ benefits for using network visibility. And obviously, the more you integrate visibility into the fabric of IT and security, the greater the benefits realized.
That said, some typical and ‘unofficial’ average returns on investments include:
- Improving tool utilization by more than 50% — a 2023 EMA survey found 32% of enterprise tools are underutilized
- Improving user satisfaction: 22% of enterprises surveyed report using network packet brokers to boost satisfaction (EMA 2023)
- Offloading TLS/SSL decryption – more than 50% of network attacks are now hidden in encrypted traffic (EMA 2023)
Of these powerful benefits, the latter may be the most compelling because various research reports say enterprises now manage more than 70 security tools alone.[1] That’s on the high side, but even at 30 or 40, the fact that tools go underutilized, or run oversubscribed, equates to massive wastes of resources and heightened risk of outages and cyberattacks.
Along with streamlining connections, packet brokers improve tool utilization by removing duplicate packets, unneeded headers and other extraneous data that hogs bandwidth and wastes processing power.
[1] https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/organizations-76-security-tools/
Related Content: Exploding Topics
Numbers Vary by Solution
A Keysight Visibility Fabric uniquely delivers:
- 100% access to data across hybrid network/cloud environments
- 0 dropped packets
- 100% TLS/SSL decryption
- 100% resilience / high availability.
Our partner ecosystem includes more than 30 of the industry’s top monitoring, security, Internet, and cloud providers while visibility customers include:
- 77 of Fortune 100 companies
- 47 of the top 50 service providers
- 100+ federal organizations
Run Your Own Calculation
Contact Keysight to have us run an ROI calculation unique to your organization’s own needs and challenges.