Get Smart About Network Segmentation & Traffic Routing
Through a combination of intelligent segmentation and traffic routing to tools, you can gain much better visibility into your network. Here's how.
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The first step to solving the security tool selection problem is asking the right questions:
• Do you handle credit cards? Are you subject to Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations?
• Do you handle Personal Identifiable Information (PII) in Europe that is in scope with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
• Do you build computer things? Do your engineers do stuff that could “look suspicious”?
• Do you have a small number of things you really need to secure, but the rest can burn?
Step two is taking inventory of exactly what your company does. For example, in my world, I know that:
• We build network security tools.
• Our engineers do a lot of DevTest work that “looks suspicious.”
• We run traffic generators that create fake network behavior.
• We run a lot of testing side by side with production traffic.