Five Critical Requirements for Internal Firewalling in the Data Center

No organization wants to see its name in the same headline as the words 'massive
data breach.' Yet, day after day, companies of all sizes, as well as nonprofits and
government agencies, continue to make the news as cybercriminals and malicious
insiders breach their defenses to exfiltrate sensitive data. Research firm Forrester
Consulting reports that 58 percent of companies faced a significant security incident
in 2019 despite spending more to secure their networks.1
Clearly, traditional defenses such as perimeter firewalls aren't enough to thwart
successful attacks. In fact, according to a Forrester survey commissioned by VMware,
seven out of 10 enterprises are handicapped by an overreliance on perimeter firewalls.2