3 Steps to Advanced East-West Protection
While the fallout of the SolarWinds breach is still unfolding, we know that malicious attackers spent nine months making lateral movements once inside the perimeter defenses. The simple truth is you can’t prevent and detect what you can’t see. And with internal, east-west traffic accounting for 85 percent of all network traffic in the data center, you’re missing a lot. Yet security professionals remain paralyzed with the complexities of securing east-west traffic in today’s modern app architecture and software-defined data centers and instead continue to rely on traditional firewalls leading to choke points, hair-pinning, static policies and increasing costs.
There’s an easier way.