VM-Series is most applicable to which traffic scenarios?

The VM-Series is designed to protect virtualized environments and cloud infrastructures, making it particularly relevant for traffic scenarios that involve both north-south and east-west traffic.

North-south traffic refers to the data flowing between clients (such as users or services outside of the data center) and the data center itself. This includes interactions from the internet to applications hosted on virtual machines. The VM-Series can effectively secure this type of traffic by inspecting and controlling the inbound and outbound flows to ensure unauthorized access and attacks are mitigated.

East-west traffic, on the other hand, refers to the data traffic that occurs within the data center, between workloads or different services that may be communicating with one another. As microservices and containerized applications become more prevalent, the need for securing communications between these internal components has become crucial. The VM-Series provides advanced visibility and control over this traffic, protecting against lateral movement by attackers within the internal network.

By combining the capabilities of securing both north-south and east-west traffic, the VM-Series is uniquely positioned to address modern network security challenges in dynamic cloud and virtualized environments, making it relevant across a broad spectrum of traffic scenarios.