What is microsegmentation? Microsegmentation is the latest current trend in security to protect data and reduce threat risk in operating systems and cloud environments. It is a security solution process that has been created to intuitively compartmentalize the data by workload within an organization’s operating systems. Security architects can develop protocols to define how all traffic moves throughout your ecosystem - north-south and east-west. It will also limit which devices can communicate with each other throughout your network. Microsegmentation can give increased granular control and keep designated segments completely secured and isolated while offering multi-dimensional firewall protection based on zero-trust policies.
As security protocols are designed for each created segment, microsegmentation can considerably reduce a company’s threat risk, improve resistance to attacks, and help maintain productivity and profitability. Additionally, microsegmentation will ensure that critical information is only going to the segments of your organization that need it, thereby reducing the amount of traffic, and creating greater levels of efficiency.
Your organization needs a microsegmentation solution to keep your operating system running smoothly with a minimal amount of threat surface. Microsegmentation will give your organization a greater level of protection by closely defining levels of access, creating protocols with regard to which devices can communicate with each other and across the various segments, increased granular controls, and varying multi-dimensional firewalling. Microsegmentation will allow for detailed, flexible security options per workload within your enterprise ecosystem. This will allow a greater level of security by creating unique security control protocols for each segmented workload and enable security to deliver an appropriate security response designed for each specific workload. Each microsegment allows for a greater level of isolation and an increased ability to visualize a threat risk immediately and create a repair solution quickly.
When beginning the process of moving to a microsegmentation solution, it is important to be vigilant and painstakingly thorough to ensure that nothing is missed in the process and to avoid any avoidable issues.
Below are just a few of the benefits of microsegmentation:
Microsegmentation is fast becoming one of the most desired must-have solutions in today’s burgeoning market. Although a relatively new concept, microsegmentation coupled with zero-trust protocols will become the de facto way security management will be done. When choosing a microsegmentation software, consideration needs to be given to the amount of granular control desired and the threat risk per each defined segment.
Here are some basic key features to look for when choosing the best microsegmentation software for your organization. It should:
