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Everyone today is talking about micro-segmentation, but there is relatively little discussion about what micro-segmentation is and how to use it to improve the security inside your data center and cloud. In fact, micro-segmentation is only one type of segmentation (we’ll discuss this more in this guide).

In this guide we outline:

• What to look for in a micro-segmentation solution
• How application dependency and vulnerability maps accelerate segmentation projects
• 5 steps to implement a micro-segmentation strategy