Case Study: Leading Government Agency achieves unified NetOps–SecOps visibility and cybersecurity compliance with NETSCOUT Smart Data

Enhancing Government NetOps and SecOps Collaboration With NETSCOUT Smart Data

A national security government agency faced pressure to meet new cybersecurity mandates and improve visibility across its network, virtual environments, remote locations, and data centers. Existing tools relying on NetFlow, MIB‑II and SNMP left gaps for real‑time monitoring, forensics, and east‑west visibility, prompting SecOps and NetOps to seek a more complete, packet‑based single source of truth.

The agency deployed an integrated NETSCOUT solution—nGeniusONE with InfiniStreamNG and vSTREAM smart data sources, nGenius 5000 packet flow switches, and Omnis Cyber Intelligence (with Cyber Adaptor)—to generate packet‑derived metadata across data center, edge, remote sites, and Kubernetes clusters. The rollout improved troubleshooting and real‑time monitoring for applications and services, strengthened cyber threat detection, delivered one vendor data source for both SecOps and NetOps, and reduced tool sprawl and CapEx/OpEx while meeting compliance goals.