Internal Firewalls for Dummies Guide

Organizations can no longer rely on edge firewalls alone to provide network security. Once attackers get past an edge firewall, they can move laterally to high-value assets. This book illustrates how internal firewalls can help your organization secure east-west network traffic and prevent attackers’ lateral movements.

In the Internal Firewalls for Dummies Guide, you’ll learn:

• The different types of network traffic and the firewall types that protect them


• How distributed internal firewalls combine the best of hardware-based enterprise edge firewalls and software-based micro-segmentation solutions


• How organizations successfully deploy distributed internal firewalls