How micro-segmentation creates an uphill battle for intruders

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The past few years have seen a major shift in security strategies from looking outward for external threats to detecting and defending against adversaries that have already breached the network. One of the biggest dangers is that, after having gained a foothold into an enterprise network, a careful threat actor can gradually move laterally through it and escalate their access and privilege while staying under the radar. This means that attackers need only to steal … How micro-segmentation creates an uphill battle for intruders