Micro Segmentation

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Microsegmentation provides a mechanism to govern network access between resources (e.g., server-to-server/east-west traffic) accounts.

This approach allows for more granular control over traffic flows and access policies. Key aspects include:

Policy Enforcement: Specific security policies can be applied to each segment, tailoring access controls to the unique needs of applications and data.
Reduced Attack Surface: By isolating workloads and applications, microsegmentation limits the potential impact of a breach, as attackers would face additional barriers when attempting to access other parts of the network.
Visibility and Monitoring: Microsegmentation provides enhanced visibility into network traffic, making it easier to detect and respond to suspicious activity.
Dynamic Segmentation: As workloads change (e.g., in cloud environments), policies can adapt dynamically, ensuring that security measures keep pace with the environment

Zero Trust Segmentation,Assume breach. Minimize impact. Increase resilience

Unlike prevention and detection technologies, Zero Trust Segmentation contains the spread of breaches and ransomware across the hybrid attack surface by continually visualizing how workloads and devices are communicating, creating granular policies that only allow wanted and necessary communication, and automatically isolating breaches by restricting lateral movement proactively or during an active attack. This approach is a foundational and strategic pillar of any Zero Trust architecture.

Microsegmentation is a key component of zero trust — and the market is changing quickly.

We at Zero Trust Solutions are, independent security advisors, working with the leading market vendors to assess on what suits your Business needs and requirements and can test all platforms during product selection

Forrester reviewed the top microsegmentation vendors based on their current offering, strategy, and market presence. The research included interviews with customers. Illumio received the highest scores in both the current offering and strategy categories.

Forrester calls Illumio “the original microsegmentation specialist.” The research firms adds that “large organizations with mature cybersecurity programs that are on a zero trust journey or are bolstering defenses against ransomware should put Illumio at the top of their shortlist.

The Venders that link into Microsegmentation approach

Akamai Guardicore
Illumio, is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024
Cisco ACI
Zscaler
Fortinet
VMWare
CrowdStrike
Zero Networks

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Speed, Sprawl, and Volume of Attacks are the Culprits

Modern hybrid IT is messy with complex architectures, and it creates new risks every day. The sprawl of hybrid IT is introducing significant gaps in the attack surface. Attackers are feasting on a landscape of multiple clouds, endpoints, data centres, containers, VMs, mainframes, production and development environments, OT and IT, and whatever lies around the corner.

All these apps and systems are continually creating new attack vectors as they communicate with each other, and with the internet, in ways you might never have imagined...but attackers have. This relatively new interconnectivity is how attacks move quickly from the initial breach to their ultimate target.

The power of Zero Trust Segmentation

See risk: by visualizing all communication and traffic between workloads and devices across the entire hybrid attack surface. For example, which servers are talking to business-critical apps, and which applications have open lines to the internet.

Set Policy: With every change, automatically set granular and flexible segmentation policies that control communication between workloads and devices to only allow what is necessary and wanted. For example, restrict server-to-app communications, dev to prod, or IT to OT

Stop the Spread: Proactively isolate high-value assets or reactively isolate compromised systems during an active attack to stop the spread of a breach. For example, see how a global law firm instantly isolated a ransomware breach.

Zero Trust Segmantion: automates effective and consistent cloud security enforcement across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

Ringfence: Protect high-value applications and data by restricting access to only that which is critical and necessary.

Choosing the best Microsegmation Vendor for your business, we can guide you on that journey as trusted advisor, experts in Zeto Trust Security Solutions.

Providing visibility into your assets, access, and network flows provides a foundation for your Zero Trust security strategy. And our global expertise can help you with your journey and hunt down the most evasive threats and limit lateral movement in the event of a breach.

Why Microsegmentation Is Important: Microsegmentation allows IT to base policies and permissions on resource identity, making it the ideal method for creating intelligent groupings of workloads based on the characteristics of individual workloads communicating inside the data centre, cloud or hybrid architectures. In combination with access controls based on the principle of least privilege, microsegmentation better protects an organization’s critical applications, workloads and data while significantly bolstering overall security posture.

What’s more, microsegmentation doesn’t rely on dynamically changing networks or the business or technical requirements placed on them, so it’s stronger and more reliable for network security. In fact, it’s a fundamental part of a zero trust network access (ZTNA) framework, which is proven to simplify access control, all these should be factors in your Zero Trust journey, we can help you along this path...

Solve: Microsegmentation

In the context of your IT environments, microsegmentation prevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally in data centres, clouds, or campus networks.

Microsegmentation provides a mechanism to govern network access between resources (e.g., server-to-server/east-west traffic) accounts.

Zero Trust Segmentation,Assume breach. Minimize impact. Increase resilience

Speed, Sprawl, and Volume of Attacks are the Culprits

The power of Zero Trust Segmentation

Choosing the best Microsegmation Vendor for your business, we can guide you on that journey as trusted advisor, experts in Zeto Trust Security Solutions.

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