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Zero-Trust Network Architecture for the Enterprise

Zero-Trust Network Architecture for the Enterprise

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Decoding the White House Cyber Strategy: Why Resilience Matters Now America’s new National Cyber Strategy sends a very clear message that cybersecurity is now about resilience, not just defense. ...

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Fighting Fire with Fire: AI-Assisted Microsegmentation to Combat AI-Enabled Hackers Thanks to GenAI, cyberattacks are coming faster and harder than ever before. The IC3 consortium at MIT Sloan warn...

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An AI-Powered Poly-Crisis Is Here, and It Is Rewriting Cyber Postures. Are You Breach Ready Yet? Unless you have been living under a rock over the past few days, you would have seen that AI-powered...

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The 'castle wall' is gone. ❌ With AI-piloted attacks, #AssumeBreach. Adopt #ZeroTrust: verify everything, enforce #Microsegmentation. Limit lateral movement & protect your 'crown jewels'. Don't perimeter-secure; secure every asset. 🛡️✨ #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity #InfoSec

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In 2026, Businesses Should Be Breach Ready and Never Shut Down Their Core Business “We do not know how long this situation may last. As a precaution, all of our IT systems have been taken down, a...

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Firewalls Alone Can’t Secure AI Workloads

~Akamai~
Traditional firewalls are insufficient for east-west AI traffic; microsegmentation is critical to prevent lateral movement within AI environments.
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#AI #Microsegmentation #ThreatIntel #ZeroTrust

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Microsegmentation Master Class: Why Hardware Wins against Software in the Real World youtu.be/U3B6GTCmQ3g
#cybersecurity #BYOS #microsegmentation #hardware #FIPS140-2 #ZeroTrust

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How AI-Powered Micro-Segmentation Transforms Customer Experience Remember when marketing meant creating one message and blasting it to your entire email list? Those days are officially over. Every customer wants to feel understood, but most brands are still treating their entire customer base like one homogeneous group. Why Mass Marketing Stopped Working Customers today see hundreds of marketing messages daily. Think about […] The post How AI-Powered Micro-Segmentation Transforms Customer Experience first appeared on Flowster.

How AI-Powered Micro-Segmentation Transforms Customer Experience: Remember when marketing meant creating one message and blasting it to your entire email list? Those days are officially over. Every customer wants… #AIMarketing #MicroSegmentation #CustomerExperience #DigitalMarketing #Personalization

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Firewalls vs. Security Groups for East-West Traffic

~Akamai~
Native cloud security groups can reduce east-west traffic control costs by 70-80% compared to traditional firewalls for equivalent L4 protection.
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#CloudSecurity #Microsegmentation #ThreatIntel

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how to niche your marketing for 2026 and beyond

how to niche your marketing for 2026 and beyond

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Unlock the secrets of #hyperpersonalization and #microsegmentation to tailor your strategies like never before. 🎯 Dive into t

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New blog posted: forms of “micro-segmentation”, tags versus IP addresses in ACL’s. Note re great post about flows by Daniel Dib, and comments to it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/micros...
Tags: #PeterWelcher #CCIE1773 #Security #MicroSegmentation #NAC #SecurityGroupTag #Cisco #Elisity #ForeScout #Flows

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Projected Growth of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Microsegmentation Market by 2029 The Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Microsegmentation market is anticipated to surpass $26 billion by 2029, driven by zero-trust initiatives and cloud management.

Projected Growth of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Microsegmentation Market by 2029 #United_States #Redwood_City #Dell'Oro_Group #Microsegmentation #Hybrid_Mesh_Firewall

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I love it when there is a simpler solution to a problem:
Implementing modern #zero-trust overlay can be tricky (legacy devices, networking obstacles, resiliency concerns). I realized I can get robust network level #microsegmentation by creating #firewall filter at the #hypervisor (both in AND out)

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Customer-Centric Innovation from ColorTokens * * * **Bringing frictionless implementation [Progressive Segmentation and EDR integration] and rapid value realization to an award-winning and peer-recognized technology platform demystifies, simplifies, and makes it extremely easy for our customers to achieve cyber resilience.** * * * As a student of innovation and technology, I’ve seen time and again that raw technological prowess alone rarely sparks widespread adoption. The real tipping point comes when innovators strip away complexity, making the tech feel intuitive and seamless, like a tool that anticipates your needs, fits with your workflow, and doesn’t place a burdensome demand on your resources or attention. This October 2025, as we observe Cybersecurity Awareness Month and embrace the theme “Stay Safe Online,” it is the perfect moment to reflect on how security innovation must also cross its own chasm. Every great technology needs to be made simple for consumption and rapid value realization. After all, when you get a Ferrari, you want to enjoy the functional and emotional benefits of a Ferrari on Day 1, not two or three years later. That’s the philosophy behind these innovations – bring value to customers instantly and make it frictionless. Below, I outline five classic examples where adoption exploded only after deliberate efforts were made to simplify the user experience. Each case highlights the initial barrier and the _critical pivot_ that bridged the gap. **Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for Personal Computers** In the 1970s and early 1980s, computers like the IBM PC were powerful but confined to command-line interfaces, filled with endless typing of cryptic codes that intimidated non-experts. Adoption stalled among everyday users. The breakthrough came with Apple’s Macintosh in 1984, which introduced a mouse-driven GUI with icons, windows, and menus. This visual, point-and-click simplicity democratized computing, propelling PCs from niche tools to household staples by the 1990s. **Digital Music Players (e.g., the iPod)** By the late 1990s, MP3 technology existed, but early players like the Rio were clunky gadgets requiring manual file transfers through tangled cables and finicky software. They appealed to tech enthusiasts but flopped with the masses. Apple’s iPod, launched in 2001, transformed this experience with a single scroll-wheel for navigation, a minimalist design, and seamless integration with iTunes’ one-click purchasing. Suddenly, “1,000 songs in your pocket” wasn’t just a slogan; it was effortless, fueling the digital music revolution. **Touchscreen Smartphones** Pre-2007 devices like BlackBerry and Nokia were engineering marvels with physical keyboards and robust features, yet their steep learning curves and fragmented apps kept them in corporate silos. Mass adoption of applications, even something as simple as SMS, waited for the iPhone’s debut. It replaced buttons with a capacitive multi-touch screen, intuitive gestures _(pinch-to-zoom, swipe)_ , and an app store that made customization plug-and-play. This consumable elegance turned smartphones into extensions of daily life, dominating the market within years. **Search Engines (e.g., Google)** In the early 1990s, web searches on AltaVista or Yahoo buried users in keyword-stuffed directories and ad-cluttered results, demanding precise queries from tech-savvy users. Adoption hovered in niche circles. Google’s 1998 launch flipped this by using PageRank for relevance-driven results, a clean interface, and the now-iconic single search bar. This simplicity made the internet’s vastness feel approachable and propelled Google to global dominance by the early 2000s. **Cloud File Storage and Syncing** In the early 2000s, services like FTP-based storage were complicated, involving server logins and manual uploads, daunting for most users. Dropbox, launched in 2008, solved this through a desktop folder that auto-synced files across devices and shareable links that required zero setup. No more wrestling with cables or commands; just drop and access. This frictionless model catapulted cloud storage from IT departments to billions of users, powering modern collaboration. These stories underscore a timeless lesson: innovation isn’t only about technical breakthroughs or invention. It is about making innovation _easy to consume,_ what I call the _last mile of innovation_. When technology helps people solve everyday problems without overwhelming them, customers feel empowered. This is when _true adoption_ happens, when the chasm is crossed. As we mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 and reflect on the theme “Stay Safe Online,” this insight becomes even more relevant. In cybersecurity, success depends less on how advanced a capability is and more on how usable and accessible it becomes for defenders. **We are crossing this chasm today in the field of network security.** Microsegmentation, the Zero Trust approach that prevents unauthorized lateral movement within digital enterprises, is a technically well-understood concept. At ColorTokens, we have been innovating for more than a decade to create technologies that enhance the customer experience, deliver measurable benefits, and empower organizations to become breach ready. Over the last several years, we have climbed the tree of product innovation, focusing on building depth, scale, and precision. In recent months, we have climbed even higher up that tree to focus on one thing above all, rapid value realization for our customers. With our latest innovation, we are removing even more barriers to the adoption of microsegmentation. Our goal is to make it simple, flexible, and effortless to deploy, bringing instantaneous value to CISOs, CIOs, and CFOs alike. Flexibility means giving customers choices, whether they prefer agent-based or agentless solutions, to achieve Zero Trust architectures. This is made possible through seamless integration between the ColorTokens Xshield Enterprise Microsegmentation Platform and existing EDR solutions already deployed in enterprises. Within minutes, you can visualize assets and traffic. Within hours, begin segmenting. And within days, enforce policies that block lateral movement and reduce the attack surface. All while maximizing the value of your EDR investment. And because every organization and its network topology is different, resilience often requires more than one approach. That’s why ColorTokens lets you combine multiple deployment methods and manage them all seamlessly from a single console. SOC teams benefit from fewer low-value alerts as Xshield proactively blocks unauthorized traffic. Early action shuts down common attack routes, letting EDRs focus on real threats. This is how proactive, _Progressive Segmentation_ , combined with a responsive EDR, drives exponential gains. We’re talking 10x improvement in focus and clarity. **This is how we make time-to-value fast, practical, and achievable in 90 days or less.** In alignment with the “Stay Safe Online” campaign, we invite you to strengthen your Zero Trust posture, simplify your security stack, and view microsegmentation not as a distant and technically complicated objective but as an achievable capability – achievable TODAY. Treat this month as the moment to shift from we should to we can – and from one day or some day to today. Let this Cybersecurity Awareness Month be a turning point. Begin your journey to become breach ready and confident in your Zero Trust strategy. Our Breach Readiness and Impact Assessment will help you pinpoint risks and take the first decisive step toward a safer enterprise. The post Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Customer-Centric Innovation from ColorTokens appeared first on ColorTokens. *** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from ColorTokens authored by Dr. Guru Gurushankar. Read the original post at: https://colortokens.com/blogs/microsegmentation-innovation-edr-integration-cyber-resilience/

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Customer-Centric Innovation from ColorTokens Bringing frictionless implementation [Progressive Segmentation™ and EDR integration] and rapid value realization t...

#Security #Bloggers #Network #Breach #Readiness #EDR #microsegmentation

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How No-Fear Policy Creation Redefines Identity-Based Segmentation and Zero-Trust Control Piotr Kupisiewicz, CTO at Elisity, explains identity-based segmentation, consistency scoring, and zero-trust controls to stop lateral movement.

Full Details: www.technadu.com/how-no-fear-...

#ZeroTrust #MicroSegmentation #Cybersecurity

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“Modern segmentation must move beyond static IPs,” says Piotr Kupisiewicz, CTO at Elisity.
He unpacks how consistency scoring and identity-based controls redefine Zero Trust.

#ZeroTrust #MicroSegmentation #Cybersecurity

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Why most enterprises still struggle to implement microsegmentation despite rising compliance pressure ## In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, where ransomware and data breaches continue to surge, regulatory compliance and customer trust have become non-negotiable pillars of cybersecurity. Yet, despite growing awareness, most enterprises are still leaving critical gaps in their network protection strategies. According to Akamai Technologies’ new report, The Segmentation Impact Study: Why Microsegmentation Now Defines Enterprise Cybersecurity, Risk, and Resilience, while 90% of organizations have adopted some form of network segmentation, only 35% have fully implemented microsegmentation across their environments. This disparity between intent and execution leaves many organizations vulnerable to lateral movement attacks — and at risk of failing regulatory audits and trust expectations. #### **What is microsegmentation — and how it works** Microsegmentation is a cybersecurity strategy that divides a network into smaller, isolated zones — or “microsegments” — down to the level of individual workloads, applications, or devices. Each segment can have its own unique security policies and access controls, effectively limiting how far an attacker or malware can move within a system. Unlike traditional “north-south” segmentation, which protects traffic flowing in and out of the network, microsegmentation focuses on “east-west” traffic — the internal communication between servers, cloud instances, and applications. Here’s how it works: 1. **Visibility and Mapping** – The network is analyzed to understand how applications and workloads communicate. 2. **Policy Creation** – Based on that insight, granular policies are defined to restrict unnecessary connections and enforce least-privilege access. 3. **Enforcement** – Security rules are applied at the workload or application level using software-defined controls, making them adaptable across data centers, cloud environments, and hybrid infrastructures. 4. **Continuous Monitoring** – Network behavior is continuously monitored, allowing teams to detect and contain threats before they spread. By isolating critical assets and minimizing the attack surface, microsegmentation acts as a “containment strategy” — ensuring that even if a breach occurs, its impact remains localized and manageable. #### **Segmentation: The foundation of cyber resilience** The Akamai study, based on insights from 1,200 global security and technology leaders, found that microsegmentation not only reduces ransomware containment time by 33%, but also strengthens compliance readiness and audit efficiency — both critical for regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and manufacturing. “Organizations that adopt microsegmentation are responding faster to cyberthreats and enjoying lower insurance premiums,” said Ofer Wolf, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai Technologies. “Segmenting the network and containing the breach is the ultimate defense against cyberattacks, allowing businesses to focus on their work without fear of disruption.” The research found that 85% of organizations report that segmentation simplifies audit reporting, helping 33% reduce costs related to attestation and assurance. Furthermore, 57% of respondents said they adopted microsegmentation to comply with regulatory requirements and avoid penalties. In an era of stringent data privacy laws — from GDPR in Europe to India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act — microsegmentation enables organizations to demonstrate data sovereignty, access control, and accountability. By isolating sensitive workloads and applying least-privilege policies, companies can ensure regulators and customers alike that data is secure and well-governed. Equally important, 74% of surveyed organizations believe that stronger segmentation practices improve insurance claim outcomes and enhance overall trust among stakeholders — a sign that cybersecurity maturity is increasingly viewed as a marker of business credibility. Despite these clear benefits, many enterprises are still struggling to advance from traditional segmentation to full microsegmentation maturity. The top barriers cited in Akamai’s report include: * Network complexity (44%) * Visibility gaps (39%) * Operational resistance (32%) Legacy systems, fragmented IT environments, and a lack of centralized policy enforcement often stall progress. However, organizations that overcome these challenges report fewer compromised systems, lower recovery costs, and stronger business continuity. #### **The road ahead** Microsegmentation is no longer just a best practice — it’s rapidly becoming a regulatory expectation and a trust differentiator. As half of non-adopters plan to implement microsegmentation within the next two years, the approach is poised to redefine enterprise security and compliance in the AI era. For organizations aiming to future-proof their defenses, the message is clear: Compliance isn’t just about passing audits — it’s about building resilient trust. And microsegmentation may be the key to achieving both. #### Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author/authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of ET Edge Insights, its management, or its members

Why most enterprises still struggle to implement microsegmentation despite rising compliance pressure In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, where ransomware and data breaches continue to ...

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Microsegmentation Cuts Risk Fast: Lower Cyber Insurance Premiums, Faster Containment Microsegmentation speeds ransomware containment, streamlines audits, and lowers cyber insurance premiums, according to Akamai study.

Microsegmentation Cuts Risk Fast: Lower Cyber Insurance Premiums, Faster Containment

The Akamai study reveals that basic segmentation is common; however, true microsegmentation isn’t.

Read all about it: cyberinsurancenews.org/microsegment...

#Cybersecurity #Microsegmentation #Cyberinsurance

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@philipgriffths.bsky.social is always a joy to listen to! Another great podcast to add to the library! Thanks to the @packetpushers.bsky.social for a great listen!

#zerotrust #appsec #netsec #microsegmentation

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PP079: Rethinking the Architecture of Microsegmentation | Packet Pushers On today's Packet Protector we talk with guest Philip Griffiths about work that's being done to reframe microsegmentation around enforcement planes, traffic categorization, and tiers of policy granula...

Excellent podcast with NetFoundry's @philipgriffths.bsky.social on the @packetpushers.bsky.social! Check out episode PP079 at packetpushers.net/podcasts/pac...
#zerotrust #microsegmentation #openziti #netfoundry

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The Cloud Edge Is the New Attack Surface The cloud now acts as the connecting infrastructure for many assets — from IoT devices to workstations to applications — exposing the edge to threats.

The cloud edge is now the fastest-growing attack surface—IoT, AI agents, and remote workloads expose gaps in visibility and control. Microsegmentation and encryption are no longer optional. ☁️🛡️ #CloudEdgeSecurity #Microsegmentation

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Network Security in the Cloud

Micro-segmentation & Least Privilege Networking
Divide your network into smaller segments and restrict access between them to minimize risks.
#Microsegmentation #

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Zero Trust Network Architecture: Why “Never Trust, Always Verify” Is the New Cybersecurity Gospel For years, cybersecurity operated on a castle-and-moat mindset: build a strong perimeter, let t...

#Cybersecurity #for #Business #cybersecurity #best #practices […]

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Why Hardware Wins Against Software in the Real World of Microsegmentation. An Interview with BYOS CEO Matias Katz
youtu.be/VjYqisWGMf4 #CyberSecurity #Microsegmentation #LegacySystems #ZeroTrust #NetworkSecurity #FIPS140-2 #IoT #OTSecurity#CriticalInfrastructure

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Targeting und Transparenz: Bald greifen die neuen EU-Regeln für politische Online-Werbung Ab Oktober gelten in Europa strengere Regeln für politische Werbung. Während Google und Meta aus Protest gegen die Verordnung auf ihren Plattformen politische Anzeigen ganz unterbinden wollen, nimmt i...

A partir de octubre, se aplicarán normas más estrictas sobre la publicidad política en #Europa. #Google y #Meta protestan contra la normativa y buscan prohibir por completo la #publicidad política en sus plataformas - #ad #microsegmentation #regulation

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The Network Fights Back: How Microsegmentation Traps Attackers Before They Move Beyond Detection: Why Containment-First Security Is the Future

The Network Fights Back: How Microsegmentation Traps Attackers Before They Move
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#CyberSecurity #Microsegmentation #ZeroTrust #IdentitySecurity #ZTNA #AgentlessSecurity #LateralMovement #InfrastructureDefense #MFAeverywhere

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Cyber Resilience Over Firefighting: Empowering Healthcare to Outpace Cybercrime with Microsegmentation Dr. Guru Gurushankar of ColorTokens addresses cyber resilience in healthcare, emphasizing breach readiness and microsegmentation.

Meet Dr. Guru Gurushankar, SVP & GM of Healthcare and Life Sciences at ColorTokens. In our latest interview, Dr. Gurushankar discusses why #cyberresilience, not just cybersecurity, is now mission-critical for #healthcare.

#Microsegmentation #BreachReadiness #Cybercrime #AIinHealthcare

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Enterprise Management Associates Releases Groundbreaking PRISM Report on Microsegmentation Solutions The EMA™ PRISM report evaluates 16 microsegmentation solutions, providing valuable insights for cybersecurity leaders in choosing effective defenses against modern threats.

Enterprise Management Associates Releases Groundbreaking PRISM Report on Microsegmentation Solutions #United_States #Cybersecurity #Microsegmentation #Lafayette #EMA

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Unpacking the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report Verizon released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report a few weeks ago, and as always, it has been a pleasure to read it. Not jus...

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