Using Zero Trust Segmentation to Limit System Breaches

The cloud, hybrid IT, and GenAI are reshaping the IT landscape, but they also are expanding attack surfaces and increasing cyber risk. Security tools already in place are falling behind, unable to keep up with new threats that have been supercharged by AI tools being used by bad actors, from criminals to hostile nation-states.

Rather than focusing solely on stopping attacks, using Zero Trust (ZT) segmentation tools provide a new line of defenses – east-west traffic visibility, microsegmentation, identity-based firewalling, and east-west traffic encryption in transit. By minimizing the impact of inevitable breaches through effective containment, agencies can maintain uptime during attacks and keep essential government services running.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline the resources you have in place to protect the most precious assets in your systems and whether they can provide visibility into traffic, encryption for lateral traffic, and use ZT policies to control access
• Evaluate the time and costs associated with existing security measures and action plans to recover from a breach to establish metrics for improvement, such as time-to-response, manpower costs, system downtime
• Delineate locations within your systems where microsegmentation and strict ZT enforcement provide the greatest protection from lateral penetration