The most important reason for companies to adopt micro-segmentation in 2021 was that it enhanced security for remote work setups. At the same time, 66 percent of respondents stated that micro-segmentation increased their company's threat detection and response.
Micro-segmentation is a method to logically create network segments and completely control traffic within and between the segments. Specifically, it controls workloads in data centers, as well as in multi-cloud environments, while also restricting the spread of lateral threats in the data centers.
Most important reasons for companies to adopt micro-segmentation worldwide in 2021
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Enhance security to support the expanded remote, work-from-anywhere model
68%
Enhance security in cloud and data center transformation initiatives
68%
Visualize all workload communications across IT (e.g. app, clouds, data centers, etc)
67%
Increase my organization's threat detection and response
66%
Increase support for new business or operational models
63%
Strengthen my organization's regulatory compliance
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