How does VPC Traffic Mirroring enhance security?

VPC Traffic Mirroring enhances security by capturing and inspecting traffic for analysis. This feature allows you to create deep packet copies of network traffic that can be sent to security appliances and monitoring tools for analysis. By analyzing this mirrored traffic, organizations can detect potential security threats, identify unusual patterns, and perform deeper inspection of the data flow within their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This proactive approach helps in identifying vulnerabilities and anomalies in network behavior, therefore improving the overall security posture.

The other options do not provide the same level of direct benefit regarding security enhancement through visibility and analysis of traffic. For instance, while compressing data, encrypting outgoing traffic, and establishing redundant paths may contribute to network efficiency, confidentiality, or availability respectively, they do not specifically focus on capturing and analyzing traffic for the purpose of enhancing security. Therefore, the capability of VPC Traffic Mirroring to facilitate in-depth traffic inspection is indispensable for maintaining and improving security in a cloud environment.