Zero Trust Segmentation Planner

The Zero Trust Segmentation Planner assists enterprise network architects, cloud engineers, and security leads in designing and implementing software-defined microsegmentation across hybrid environments. It moves organizations away from legacy IP-based perimeter models toward dynamic, identity-based workload isolation.

It structures microsegmentation policies across multi-tier applications, Kubernetes clusters, database tiers, and legacy on-premises workloads, ensuring that a compromised application server cannot communicate laterally with unauthorized peer services.

Macro-segmentation relies on traditional network hardware (firewalls, routers, and VLANs) to separate large groups of systems—such as placing 500 employee laptops in VLAN 10 and 200 servers in VLAN 20. While macro-segmentation restricts traffic crossing the router between VLANs, it provides zero control over traffic moving within the same VLAN. If an attacker compromises one server in the server VLAN, they can connect directly to every other server in that subnet over any port without ever passing through a firewall.

Microsegmentation implements granular, software-defined security perimeters around individual workloads, virtual machines, or containers. Enforced directly at the host level (using tools like iptables, Windows Filtering Platform, eBPF, or Envoy sidecars), microsegmentation decouples security policies from network IP addresses. Each workload is granted access only to the exact IP, port, and API endpoints necessary for business operations, effectively eliminating lateral traversal.