40% of organizations plan to move toward continuous monitoring of all assets on the network. 30% plan to capture more network traffic for security analytics. Packet-broker technology from companies like Gigamon, Ixia, Netscout, and VSS Monitoring have become a staple within large enterprise and service provider networks. As SDN proliferates, networks will come with basic packet broker technology built in. This too will encourage greater collection, centralization, and analysis of network traffic. Security teams will likely take full advantage of packet brokers as this type of overlay network can capture and route network data to centralized security analytics engines.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2902499/in-cybersecurity-the-network-doesn-t-lie.html