Streamlining Security Policy Management within the Software-Defined Data Center

Data center security policy definition, deployment and management has traditionally remained a manual process, which is error-prone and tends to limit the effectiveness of the defined security posture. The security posture is weakened with the usage of rudimentary network domain specific layer-2/layer-3 primitives such as IP addresses, VLANs, ports and protocols that do not detect or prevent sophisticated attacks from finding a way around layer-2/layer-3 based policies....