Why Deep Observability Is a Board-Level Priority for Financial Services Institutions

Financial institutions are under simultaneous pressure to expand digital services, manage cyber risk, and meet increasingly demanding regulatory expectations. Encrypted traffic, lateral (East-West) movement, and hybrid cloud architectures now carry the most sensitive data and highest-value transactions. They are also where visibility gaps emerge and where attackers increasingly operate.

For boards and executive teams, these visibility gaps are not just technical issues. They affect operational resilience, regulatory exposure, and customer trust.

Metrics, events, logs, and traces alone often lack the network context required to detect threats, validate controls, and investigate incidents across modern hybrid cloud environments.

The executive brief, Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Financial Services with the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, outlines how financial institutions can close this gap by extending existing security, observability, and compliance investments with network-derived telemetry. 

The Visibility Gap in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud 

As institutions modernize, they face several converging challenges: 

• Blind spots in encrypted, ingress–egress and lateral (East–West) traffic that obscure threat activity and complicate inspection and evidence collection 

• Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that expand the attack surface and fragment control coverage 

• Evolving mandates, such as PCI DSS 4.0 and DORA, that require continuous validation of control effectiveness rather than point-in-time attestations 

• Tool sprawl and rising costs as security and observability stacks ingest more data without sufficient context or signal quality 

Deep observability extends metrics, events, logs, and traces with network-derived telemetry such as packet data, flow records, and application metadata. This adds context these sources cannot generate on their own.

What the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline Delivers to Financial Services Institutions

The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline delivers network-derived telemetry across data center, cloud, virtualized, and container environments, providing governed access to encrypted traffic and selectively enriching and delivering telemetry to existing tools. 

To deliver this visibility, the Deep Observability Pipeline provides several capabilities:: 

• Complete visibility into network communications across data center, private cloud, and public cloud, including encrypted, ingress–egress, and lateral (East–West) traffic. 

• Centralized, policy-driven decryption (Gigamon Precryption^® technology and TLS/SSL decryption) that provides governed access to encrypted flows for approved tools and workflows. 

• Selective traffic delivery and enrichment, filtering out duplicate and low-value traffic while enriching critical flows with contextual metadata. 

• Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) to identify applications, services, AI engines, and dependencies that support digital banking and payment services. 

Rather than replacing existing tools, Gigamon adds network context that makes security, observability, and compliance tools more effective and extends their useful life. 

Outcomes That Matter to Financial Services Leaders 

1. Stronger Risk Management and Security Posture 

• Improved detection of ransomware, lateral movement, living-off-the-land (LoTL) techniques, and command-and-control (C2) activity hidden in encrypted traffic 

• Faster, more confident investigations with reduced false positives  

• Greater resilience and assurance for boards, regulators, and customers  

2. Improved Compliance and Audit Readiness 

• Continuous visibility across encrypted, lateral, and hybrid cloud communications to validate control effectiveness for frameworks such as PCI DSS 4.0 and DORA 

• Greater confidence as regulatory expectations continue to evolve 

3. Operational Efficiency and Performance 

• Faster isolation and resolution of performance and availability issues (lower MTTR) 

• Higher reliability for digital banking, payment, and trading platforms. 

• More efficient observability operations through reduced noise and better use of existing tool investments 

Corpay, a global payments and spend management company, uses the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline to gain visibility into encrypted and hybrid cloud traffic and deliver network context to its existing security and observability tools. This added visibility helps Corpay validate security controls, support PCI DSS compliance, particularly for encrypted traffic inspection, and streamline evidence collection without disrupting payment operations. 

See why deep observability is becoming a prerequisite for secure, compliant, and high-performing digital financial services. Institutions that plan now will be better positioned to manage risk, satisfy regulators, and protect customer trust as complexity continues to increase. 

Learn more:

• Download the executive brief, Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Financial Services with Gigamon Deep Observability, and explore how financial institutions are addressing these challenges.

• View our financial services resources.

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