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Five Critical Requirements for Internal Firewalling in the Data Center
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Sponsored by: VMWARE
Preventing hackers from hiding inside large volumes of east-west network traffic has now become critical to security professionals. Organizations need new tools and techniques to fight back.
In this paper, you will learn:
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The differences between protecting north-south network traffic and east-west network traffic. |
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The challenges in using traditional perimeter firewalls to secure east-west network traffic. |
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The characteristics that make internal firewalls suitable for network security in the data center. |