The 7 Key Attributes of a Visibility Platform

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, essential organizations such as network carriers, government agencies, and corporations play a vital role. They keep our world running, ensuring the flow of critical goods and services while enabling hybrid work for millions. However, the more indispensable they become, the more intricate, unmanageable, and vulnerable their digital ecosystems appear.

Enter the concept of a visibility platform – a transformative solution to address challenges head-on. This platform acts as a central data foundation, harnessing real-time network intelligence to eliminate blind spots that hinder progress.

At its core, this platform encompasses seven essential attributes:

?? Any application

Whether it's standard, custom, expertise-required, web-services, or customer-facing, the visibility platform must be able to pinpoint and resolve any network/security issues.

?? Any scale

A true visibility platform generates a reliable, scalable data set regardless of domain size - small enterprise, large enterprise, or carrier service provider.

?? Anywhere

A visibility platform should operate flawlessly end-to-end at any scale, regardless of where or how an organization runs: on-premises, hybrid/co-location, or fully in the cloud.

? Anytime

Real-time visibility is crucial, and a robust visibility platform must be able to perform deep-dive, protocol-level analysis and forensic evidence collection using either real-time data captures or historical data mining.

?? Any operational team

A visibility platform that extracts contextual metadata from data packets creates a shared source of objective information that encourages collaboration across network and application teams, whether NetOps, SecOps, or AIOps.

?? Any ecosystem

For packet-level visibility data to become a connective tissue and a source of agility and reduced risk for the entire IT team, a visibility platform must be sharable with existing security and analytics platforms.

?? Any vendor

A visibility platform must support any combination of cloud or network equipment monitoring vendors the organization has deployed in its ecosystem.

For an essential organization’s continued growth and success in improving customer experience, performance, and operational efficiency—a visibility platform is the only sensible path forward.

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