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implementing-microsegmentation-with-guardicore

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When to use

• When implementing east-west traffic controls to prevent lateral movement within data centers
• When needing application-level visibility into network communication patterns before writing segmentation policies
• When segmenting workloads across heterogeneous environments (VMs, containers, bare metal, cloud)
• When compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, HIPAA) require network segmentation validation
• When deploying zero trust at the network layer with process-level granularity

When not to use

• perimeter-only security
• environments with fewer than 50 workloads where VLANs/security groups suffice
• when network team lacks capacity for ongoing policy management

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