East-West Traffic
What is East-West Traffic?
Network traffic that flows laterally between servers and workloads within a data center, requiring security monitoring for threat detection.
Terms that appear alongside east-west traffic
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as east-west traffic. The number is how many controls name both.
- zero trust 4 shared controls
- microsegmentation 4 shared controls
- zero trust network access 4 shared controls
- cis benchmarks 3 shared controls
- patch management 3 shared controls
- firewall 3 shared controls
- infrastructure as code iac 3 shared controls
- vulnerability 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern east-west traffic
What the standards actually require on east-west traffic
Requirements naming east-west traffic across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure controls cover the underlying compute + network + storage + management plane. (1) Virtual Network Segmentation: VPC Virtual Private Cloud isolation + subnets + security groups + NACLs + microsegmentation + service mesh (Istio + Linke...
ISMAP-CloudInfrastructure-NetworkSegmentation-Container-Serverless-WorkloadProtection-Hardening-ConfigManagement · ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure - VPC Network Segmentation + Container/Serverless Security + Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) + Image/Template Hardening + CIS Benchmarks + Configuration Management + IaC →Kuwait NCF Protect function (Infrastructure). Network Security and Segmentation: defense in depth + perimeter (firewall + WAF + DDoS mitigation) + internal segmentation (microsegmentation + VLAN + zero-trust network access ZTNA) + east-west traffic inspection...
KNCF-Protect-Network-Configuration-Vulnerability-Physical-Secure-SDLC-Hardening-Patching-Drift · Kuwait NCF Protect + Network + Configuration + Vulnerability + Physical + Secure SDLC →Monitor malware per Section 4.4 including signature-based AV + behavioral EDR + sandboxing + threat intel feed integration + Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) + Indicators of Attack (IOAs).
NISTSP137-6 · Malware, Identity Access, and Network Boundary Monitoring →Questions people ask about east-west traffic
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