MICROSEGMENTATION
In a world increasingly beset by cybercrime of many and varied types, your company’s infrastructure security is more essential than ever. Patrick Assheton-Smith, MD at Symbiosys IT, explains how security has shifted from a north-south focus to a more complex, east-west approach.
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ny organisation that suffers a breach or attack of any kind faces the strong possibility that a successful cyberattack will lead directly to one or more of the following: a negative impact on its earnings, damage to its reputation, and/or placing its operations in jeopardy. With such potential risks on the table, it is clear that infrastructure security should be as tight as possible, meaning you should embrace a full suite of security solutions. What we are talking about here includes perimeter, network, application, endpoint, data and cloud security, as well as cryptography management and
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The Importance of
EAST-WEST
SECURITY
security architecture. One of the major challenges with traditional security is that it is designed from a north-south perspective. Basically, this means that it secures your infrastructure from traffic coming from outside by ensuring that it can only enter your network through a firewall. In today’s digitising world, however, more and
more companies are moving to the cloud, and the nature of its ‘anywhere, any time’ style of access means that a new method of securing things needs to be considered.
Deploying microsegmentation This is why microsegmentation has come to the fore in recent times – it is
