What is East-West security?
The monitoring and inspection of traffic travelling laterally within the network perimeter in order to identify and block known and new dangers as well as unlawful access is known as east-west security. Threat actors will eventually discover a way around modern perimeter firewalls, which means that all internal network traffic is now exposed and must be safeguarded, according to East-West security. Why is East-West security important? The distributed nature of modern networks, as well as the increasingly permeable perimeters that surround them, means that traffic within the network can no longer be trusted simply because it is within the network. Furthermore, because East-West travel now accounts for a much bigger percentage of total network traffic than North-South traffic, disregarding its potential threats is no longer an option. Malicious actors that breach the network perimeter without the protection of East-West security controls can move laterally at will, lin...