Network segmentation: the quietest way to prevent outages
Separating checkout, guest and management traffic is, for most organizations, the biggest gain achievable without buying new hardware.
A significant share of the outages at retail and manufacturing sites comes not from hardware failure but from traffic that isn't separated.
In a setup where the guest network and checkout traffic share the same segment, one busy day is enough on its own to slow down the payment system.
In most organizations, segmentation can be implemented through configuration on existing hardware. What matters is turning which service goes in which segment into a written policy.
The next step is to define inter-segment access rules on the principle of least privilege and review them regularly. When rules go undocumented, they loosen on their own within a few years.
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