When it comes to meeting regulatory compliance, companies are struggling with the increasingly dynamic environment we work in today. As the regulations themselves get stricter, security audits are becoming more common, and the consequences more grave, for noncompliance. These include fines, damage to business reputation, and even loss of revenue until compliance is achieved.
Physical segregation of IT infrastructure is no longer enough. Workloads have become dynamic, and the CDE is not static, including tiers that allow for autoscaling or unpredictable changes. Networks and applications that are in scope for PCI DSS regulations are complex. They can span multiple machines, include hybrid environments like containers and VMs, and even work across multiple physical locations or time zones.
Microsegmentation is becoming a popular choice for meeting compliance regulations such as PCI DSS. The right solution can provide unparalleled visibility into traffic and data flows across your entire infrastructure, including hybrid environments. It can then help you segment your network, reducing the scope and limiting communication at process level. This can keep your CDE protected, even from lateral moves or pivots if a breach occurs. A flexible policy engine for creating rules will ensure that you have ultimate control over your microsegmentation approach, meeting more in-depth requirements such as permissions and behavior for insecure protocols.
For PCI compliance and more, microsegmentation can allow you to gain powerful visibility of all applications and workloads at process level, build flexible policies that drill down to meet compliance regulations, and enforce these to control an overall security posture that has you ready for any audit.