Multi-Site Network and Security Services with NSX-T: Implement Network Security, Stateful Services, and Operations

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I. HoogendoornMulti-Site Network and Security Services with NSX-Thttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7083-7_1

1. NSX-T Security and Firewalls

Iwan Hoogendoorn¹  

(1)

ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

 

This chapter explains the challenges in the traditional data center security model and covers how NSX-T provides macro- and micro-segmentations to offer a zero trust security model that overcomes these traditional data center security challenges.

Traditional Data Center Security

The traditional data center security model is based on environments that are tied to networks. Typical data center network security models offer security between network subnets, but ...