Gigamon

Gigamon

Company type	Private
Industry	Hybrid cloud Infrastructure, Hybrid cloud security, Deep observability
Founded	2004 (2004)
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Shane Buckley (CEO) Tony Jarjoura(CFO) Chaim Mazal (Chief Security Officer) John Giacomini (Chief Revenue Officer)
Products	GigaSMART GigaSECURE GigaVUE series Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS
Number of employees	1,000 (As of April 2025)
Website	gigamon.com

Gigamon operates as a private entity specializing in computer security, offering network-derived intelligence and insights that support cloud environments, security frameworks, observability solutions, and network management systems. It commands a leading position in the deep observability sector, holding a 71% market share. Once a publicly traded firm, Gigamon is now under the ownership of Elliott Management Corporation and is based in Santa Clara, California.

History

Established in 2004 initially as Gigamon Systems, LLC, the business transitioned into a corporate structure in 2009, adopting the name Gigamon Inc. Currently, Shane Buckley serves as the President and CEO.

In July 2012, Gigamon submitted paperwork for an initial public offering and officially went public on June 11, 2013, listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “GIMO.” The IPO generated $128 million through the sale of 6.75 million shares priced at $19 each.

By 2015, the company had formalized its Partner Program encompassing more than 220 partners across North America and expanded its footprint by moving its headquarters to Santa Clara. In February 2016, Gigamon was honored by ringing the NYSE closing bell and reported revenue growth from $68 million in 2011 to nearly $311 million in 2016.

In January 2018, Elliott Management along with The Qatar Investment Authority acquired Gigamon for $1.6 billion. That same year marked Gigamon’s entry into the network detection and response (NDR) arena through its acquisition of startup ICEBRG; however, it divested its ThreatINSIGHT unit to Fortinet in December 2022. In February 2022, ThreatINSIGHT was enhanced to include a 365-day metadata retention feature aimed at boosting SOC team effectiveness.

By 2019, Gigamon’s technologies were implemented within over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. In December 2021, it formed a partnership with Cirrus Networks to deliver managed security services focused on government agencies, mining operations, financial institutions, and educational organizations within Australia.

In 2024, Gigamon attracted strategic investment from Siris Capital Group to accelerate innovation and expansion in deep observability offerings, thereby strengthening its foothold in the cloud security market.

Products

Gigamon designs both physical and virtual solutions for network visibility that incorporate network TAPs and aggregation devices, traffic manipulation tools, and visibility fabric nodes. Its product suite features Deep Observability (formerly known as Hawk), GigaVUE (including Cloud Suite and Appliances), GigaSMART, and GigaVUE-FM.

The company introduced “Active Visibility” capabilities in 2014 to enable SSL decryption, support multi-layered security architectures, and accommodate high-speed networks such as 100 Gig-E and 40 Gig-E.

In April 2015, Gigamon unveiled Software Defined Visibility—a programmable framework allowing customers, security vendors, and managed service providers to control the Gigamon Visibility Fabric using RESTful APIs. By July of that year, it launched the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform which utilizes traffic visibility fabric to extract scalable metadata designed to combat Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).

The Application Filtering Intelligence solution detects application traffic performance issues by evaluating over 3,000 IT and consumer applications and directs pertinent data streams to security tools, monitoring systems, or data loss prevention platforms.

In October 2021, Gigamon collaborated with Armis to integrate its Visibility and Analytics Fabric with Armis’ Agentless Device Security Platform to enhance comprehensive visibility across hybrid network environments.

Deep Observability Pipeline

In 2021, Gigamon introduced Hawk, recognized as the inaugural elastic visibility and analytics framework for all data in transit within cloud infrastructures. This solution offered visibility-as-code seamlessly integrated into cloud automation workflows and was compatible with AWS alongside other cloud service providers. By 2022, Hawk was rebranded as the Deep Observability Pipeline, designed to deliver network-derived insights to cloud, security, and observability platforms, thereby eliminating security gaps and lowering tool-related expenses. It facilitates hybrid and multi-cloud deployments by capturing network traffic directly at its origin.

In October 2022, Gigamon extended its Pipeline capabilities through integration with LogRhythm’s SIEM system, enhancing the detection of behavioral irregularities and cyber threats. The subsequent month saw Gigamon collaborating with InfoVista to address digital transformation hurdles within 5G core infrastructures, Open RAN architectures, and private mobile networks, aiming to boost adaptability and network connectivity.

Precryption

Gigamon Precryption™ is an automated technology providing clear-text visibility into encrypted communications across cloud-native, virtualized, or containerized environments. Incorporated within Gigamon GigaVUE version 6.4, it supports sophisticated threat detection, analysis, and incident response processes. Launched in September 2023, Precryption leverages eBPF technology to intercept traffic either before encryption or following decryption, unveiling threat activities that were previously obscured by encryption layers.

Vectra

Gigamon and Vectra AI Inc. established an OEM alliance integrating Vectra’s AI-powered attack signal intelligence with Gigamon’s GigaVUE Cloud Suite across hybrid cloud platforms. This partnership enhances the speed of threat detection, mitigates risk exposure, and streamlines Security Operations Center (SOC) procedures for large-scale enterprises.

Cribl.io integration

Gigamon collaborated with Cribl.io to merge Gigamon's network telemetry and application metadata with Cribl’s observability pipeline technology. This integration is intended to simplify data handling, increase visibility into data flows, and strengthen threat detection by unifying network traffic monitoring with security event management.

Lawsuits

On April 23, 2021, a United States federal jury dismissed Gigamon’s patent infringement allegations against APCON Inc., invalidating all five patents related to network data management involved in the case and rejecting claims of APCON’s infringement.