As awareness grows that access control alone cannot fully block internal threats in zero trust environments, Gigamon and Zscaler have introduced an integrated solution combining network-based telemetry with identity-centric access control. The solution enables continuous analysis of application behavior following access authorization, and the company explains it will serve as a means to reduce visibility gaps in hybrid cloud environments.

 

On the 19th, Gigamon announced it is beginning to provide an integrated solution combining Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) and Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) in cooperation with Zscaler. ZPA is a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution that controls policy-based private application access without direct connection to corporate internal networks, while AMI is a technology that automatically extracts and analyzes approximately 6,000 metadata attributes from network traffic. The two technologies are linked through Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline.

In a 2026 hybrid cloud security survey conducted by Gigamon, 45% of over 1,000 security and IT leaders cited lack of visibility as the biggest challenge despite investments in security solutions. As enterprises transition from legacy VPNs to ZTNA, security teams require the capability to understand actual user behavior following access, the company explained.

 

 

The integrated solution enhances operational capabilities across three dimensions, Gigamon stated. First, in terms of △zero trust policy validation, it continuously monitors East-West traffic delivered from Zscaler App Connectors to private applications to detect lateral movement and abnormal internal communications. In terms of △security investigation context, it enriches ZPA access information with AMI-based application metadata and network telemetry to accelerate incident analysis speed in existing security platforms such as SIEM, NDR, and SOC. In terms of △operational efficiency, it extends visibility to include application activity within encrypted tunnels, enabling continuous validation of compliance with the principle of least privilege.


Srinivas Chakravarty, Vice President of Cloud Ecosystem at Gigamon, stated, "Zero trust determines who can access, but deep observability shows what actually happens after access. By combining the two solutions, we can perform internal lateral movement detection and security policy validation more quickly."

Satish Madiraju, Vice President of Product Management at Zscaler, said, "The integration of ZPA and AMI enables deep visibility into application activity and user behavior following access authorization, accelerating security investigation speed and enabling faster lateral movement detection."