From Chaos to Clarity: Building Full Network Visibility in Hybrid Cloud
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As per Gartner’s report, cloud infrastructure spending surged past $88 billion by 2022, with organizations rapidly expanding their hybrid cloud presence. But as hybrid deployments grow, achieving full network visibility in hybrid cloud becomes one of the most pressing challenges.
Hybrid networks—blending on-premises and cloud-based systems—introduce complex infrastructures and performance blind spots. Fragmented tools, inconsistent monitoring, and siloed platforms make it difficult to maintain effective network visibility and monitoring.
This blog explores how organizations can overcome these issues and establish a clear strategy for cloud network visibility and governance, along with how Fidelis Halo® CNAPP empowers security teams to close visibility gaps across dynamic hybrid environments.
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Why Full Network Visibility in Hybrid Cloud Matters
Today’s IT leaders recognize that network visibility is not just a tech goal—it’s a business imperative.
Gartner predicts over 50% of cloud network activity will trigger security incidents detected by Network Detection and Response (NDR) technology by 2029. Yet, hybrid cloud environments often suffer from fragmented tools and outdated monitoring methods.
A staggering 99% of respondents in a recent survey linked complete network visibility with business value1.
But traditional tools fail to adapt to modern distributed infrastructures, creating an urgent need for multi-cloud visibility and network intent management strategies that can support security, performance, and compliance across every environment.
The Visibility Crisis in Hybrid Cloud
Why Traditional Monitoring Falls Short
Legacy monitoring tools can’t keep up with today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments. While 82% of professionals report good visibility in physical setups, only 20% have access to necessary data packets in public clouds1.
Multiple cloud providers impose varied access controls. Monitoring tools, originally designed for isolated environments, now cause tool sprawl and more confusion. These mismatched approaches leave security teams with partial insights and growing blind spots.
Hidden Security Risks of Fragmented Visibility
Lack of network security visibility directly affects threat detection, compliance, and system resilience:
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Extended threat detection times: It takes an average of 277 days to identify and contain breaches. Those lasting over 200 days cost $1.2M more2. -
Increased vulnerability exposure: Each siloed platform introduces exploitable gaps. -
Compliance challenges: Proving HIPAA, GDPR, or CCPA compliance becomes difficult without centralized cloud network visibility.
Consequences include data breaches, regulatory fines, emergency fixes, and customer churn—often resulting in 16–20 hours of yearly downtime per end user3.
Building a Resilient Foundation for Cloud Network Visibility and Governance
To fix the visibility problem, organizations must establish a unified foundation spanning their hybrid infrastructure.
Map Your Network Topology
Start with a detailed hybrid cloud network topology that maps:
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Data flows, network traffic routes, and virtual networks
This map helps eliminate blind spots and enables cloud network visibility by showing how workloads and data interact in real time.
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Fidelis Halo® CNAPP provides dynamic topology visualization tools that give live insights across your hybrid architecture.
Define Visibility Requirements for Each Environment
Your map becomes the blueprint for identifying and addressing visibility needs:
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Identify monitoring gaps in your current tools -
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Tailor strategies for on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud—while keeping a unified governance model
A cohesive visibility strategy ensures you’re not stuck with isolated monitoring systems that increase operational risks.
Deploy Unified Monitoring Protocols
Achieving network visibility and monitoring across hybrid cloud requires:
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Tools that work both on-prem and in the cloud -
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Packet capture integrated into centralized analysis platforms -
Seamless coordination between cloud-native and traditional tools
“Network-based tools don’t see cloud workloads. Cloud-native tools can’t use network data.” Unified protocols solve this disconnect.
Getting Started with Fidelis Halo®: Your Path to Full Visibility
Fidelis Halo® offers a practical framework for establishing full network visibility in hybrid cloud—through a mix of technology, automation, and intelligence.
Step 1. Assess Existing Visibility Gaps
Start with a free trial to analyze blind spots and assess your security posture. The assessment identifies:
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Visibility breakdowns across cloud and on-prem
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Security gaps leave you vulnerable. This toolkit helps you:
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Identify and close security blind spots -
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Stay ahead of evolving cyber threats
Step 2. Deploy Agentless or Microagent Monitoring
Choose a method that fits your infrastructure:
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Agentless: Ideal for restrictive environments -
Microagent-based: Low footprint with deep data insights
Both methods provide immediate cloud network visibility and reduce time-to-detection.
Step 3. Integrate with Existing Infrastructure
Fidelis Halo® integrates easily with:
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Existing monitoring dashboards
This eliminates tool sprawl while achieving multi-cloud visibility and network intent alignment.
Step 4. Automate Remediation Workflows
Fidelis Halo® doesn’t just alert—it acts:
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Quarantines affected resources
Step 5. Maintain Visibility Through Audits and Alerts
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Scheduled audits to track environment-wide changes -
Real-time alerts for suspicious activity -
Continuous compliance checks with HIPAA, GDPR, and more
Turning Visibility into Actionable Intelligence
Real-Time Asset Discovery
The platform constantly discovers and inventories all assets in your environment, including cloud accounts, virtual machines, servers, and containers. This automated asset discovery ensures every resource stays within your visibility framework.
Agentless and Lightweight Monitoring
Fidelis Halo®‘s lightweight technology provides detailed monitoring without slowing performance. The solution maintains full network visibility in highly dynamic environments where resources constantly change, without creating operational overhead or affecting system performance.
Centralized Visibility Across Multi-Cloud
Fidelis Halo® breaks down visibility silos with its unified dashboard. This central interface shows security and compliance information from all environments—on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud platforms. Security teams can learn about their entire hybrid infrastructure instantly without jumping between different monitoring and visibility tools.
Heartbeat Monitoring
The heartbeat monitoring feature gives you quick visibility into network activities without heavy resource use. You get constant awareness of network status while keeping performance impact minimal across hybrid environments.
Implementing Automated Response Capabilities
Fidelis Halo® CNAPP does more than monitor – it enables automated responses to security incidents right away. These features include:
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Policy-driven responses to suspicious network activities
These capabilities help Fidelis Halo® not just spot security issues but actively fix them. This delivers unmatched network visibility and protection throughout your hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Conclusion: See Everything. Secure Everything.
Full network visibility in hybrid cloud isn’t optional—it’s essential.
With security threats evolving and infrastructures growing more complex, organizations need more than just fragmented monitoring. Fidelis Halo® CNAPP provides end-to-end hybrid cloud visibility and governance, enabling real-time responses, simplified compliance, and smarter security.
Through unified protocols, continuous monitoring, and automated remediation, you gain control over every node, cloud, and container—turning complexity into clarity.
Compliance gaps leave your cloud vulnerable. Learn how to:
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Maintain real-time security visibility
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