99% of orgs are PLANNING microsegmentation, but only 9% have followed through

Pictured above: Another one of my totally organic, AI-free, hand-drawn “back of a literal envelope” diagrams showing the “limit the blast radius” benefits of network segmentation and microsegmentation. Jack Poller, NetFoundry’s VP Product Marketing, kicked off a six-part microsegmentation series with the gap that nobody in the space likes to say out loud. An Omdia survey of 352 security decision-makers found that: 99% of organizations are implementing or planning microsegmentation, and only 9% had protected more than 80% of their critical systems. Half of them had been through a lateral-movement attack in the previous year, which is the exact thing microsegmentation is supposed to stop. Here’s the article: The Microsegmentation Trap: Why 99% Are Planning It and Only 9% Protect Their Critical Systems. Jack argues that the conventional playbook is the problem: Discover every flow, model the policy for the whole environment, simulate, then enforce. Each phase gates the next, and phase…