Preventing a Stalled Network Segmentation Project
As part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series—a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories— Ido Daniel of Forescout charges up a step-by-step guide to prevent your network segmentation project from stalling. In healthy relationships, we avoid making assumptions about a situation until we know all the facts and establish where miscommunications may have begun. This same mindset should be applied when evaluating the success of your organization’s network segmentation project. It’s an unfortunately common practice for organizations to assume their assets and networks are fully separated when they are not. A variety of factors tend to complicate this assumption, including the disintegration of network perimeters due to remote work’s pervasiveness and the growing number and diversity of connected IoT and OT assets. The attack surface, thus, is constantly expanding and poses a more significant challenge to properly segment and mon