When it comes to stopping cyber attackers, most information security teams primarily concern themselves with north-south traffic. This traffic moves between an internal network and the broader internet, and it is where most security tools, including firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention tools, tend to focus...
One of the most popular targets for attackers, cybercriminals, and other bad actors is east/west network traffic. This is network traffic that originates from one internal host or network segment, and whose destination is another internal host or network segment. North/south traffic, on the other hand,...
Attackers have proven that they can evade the perimeter to establish a beachhead inside the network from which they can move laterally while using tactics to remain undetected. Traditional security controls cannot stop many of the in-network tactics that attackers use to elude detection while...