Securing the Data Center in Just Four Steps

In the never-ending fight against cyberattacks, enterprises have long relied on traditional
perimeter firewalls to prevent cybercriminals from reaching their targets within the data
center. As the evidence mounts that today's perimeter is permeable and likely to be
breached, companies have begun to heed the call for improving security postures inside
corporate networks.
However, in the context of modern, distributed applications and increasingly dynamic
workloads, securing all or even most east-west (internal) traffic has long been viewed as
too complex, expensive, and time-consuming for brownfield—and even greenfield—data
centers. This perception is certainly accurate for those organizations that attempt to
secure east-west traffic by employing traditional, appliance-based perimeter firewalls as
internal firewalls