NETSCOUT Enhances Cloud Compliance for Enterprises
▼ Summary
– NETSCOUT has enhanced continuous monitoring in its Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes to improve audit controls, prove zero-trust policies, and speed up incident detection and documentation.
– The solution addresses compliance challenges in cloud environments by providing real-time visibility into workloads, configurations, network traffic, and API calls.
– Enterprises face compliance gaps in Kubernetes due to container dynamism, requiring packet- and process-level monitoring to manage risk and meet regulatory standards.
– Enhanced visibility helps demonstrate compliance with frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 by supporting continuous monitoring, incident response, and data protection.
– Continuous monitoring reduces blind spots in Kubernetes environments, enabling real-time detection of anomalies and policy violations while providing critical evidence for investigations.
NETSCOUT has expanded its continuous monitoring capabilities to help enterprises meet complex cloud compliance requirements, delivering essential visibility for security audits, data protection, and operational integrity. The company’s enhanced Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes now offers deeper attribution for audit controls and incident documentation, accelerates threat detection, and validates zero-trust network policies. As Kubernetes adoption grows, with 93% of organizations either evaluating, piloting, or actively using it in production, maintaining compliance at scale has become a critical challenge. NETSCOUT’s solution provides real-time insights into workloads, cluster configurations, network traffic, and API activity, enabling businesses to consistently gather and update compliance evidence.
John Grady, a principal analyst at Omdia, emphasized the compliance risks associated with container dynamism in Kubernetes environments. He noted that enterprises must capture packet- and process-level activity across their entire IT landscape to effectively manage risk, support investigations, and meet accountability standards. Without comprehensive visibility, companies may overlook critical internal activity, creating compliance blind spots and increasing exposure to regulatory penalties.
NETSCOUT’s platform supports a range of regulatory and security frameworks by delivering the data needed to demonstrate system security, auditability, and resilience. Key compliance areas addressed include continuous monitoring and threat detection under regulations like DORA, incident response aligned with ISO 27001/27002, data protection for GDPR and HIPAA, configuration management per NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-190, and audit accountability. The solution also tackles the challenge of east-west traffic monitoring within Kubernetes clusters, offering network-level visibility and container-aware telemetry to detect anomalies, lateral movement, and policy violations as they occur.
According to Thor Wallace, Chief Information Officer at NETSCOUT, continuous monitoring serves as both a risk mitigator and a compliance enabler. He highlighted that visibility into Kubernetes cloud environments is vital not only for meeting service levels and customer expectations but also for supporting organizational compliance initiatives. By providing detailed, real-time evidence at the packet and container level, the platform helps enterprises understand precisely what occurred during an incident, where it happened, and when, information that is indispensable for audits and forensic analysis.
![Image: A visual representation of network monitoring and data flow in a cloud environment.]
For additional details on the InfiniStreamNG platform and the Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes, visit the NETSCOUT website. The company’s solutions are designed to protect connected infrastructure from cyber threats and performance disruptions, serving major enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations worldwide.
(Source: MEA Tech Watch)
