Constantly changing network security threats, emphasising quality of customer experience, and a greater need to measure internal and external SLA’s, has become an increasingly important topic. IT has begun turning to application intelligence to provide the insight needed by implementing the below strategies.

• Properly designed visibility architectures deliver the critical intelligence needed to boost network security protection, reduce troubleshooting costs, create more efficiencies, and extend the life and utility of monitoring tools.
• Early detection of breaches using application data reduces the loss of personally identifiable information (PII) and reduces breach costs.
• Context- aware data processing can be used to expose indicators of compromise, provide geolocation of attack vectors, and combat secure sockets layer (SSL) encrypted threats by filtering data at the application level to remove unnecessary data clutter at the tool interface.