Autonomous Microsegmentation 101: Why Gartner Says Automation is the Only Way to Contain Breaches on the Global Attack Surface

Modern enterprise networks no longer operate within a tidy, well-defined perimeter. Today’s environments sprawl across data centers, clouds, branch offices, and everywhere in between – a tangled web of layers, workloads, and identities that Gartner calls the Global Attack Surface Grid. In this landscape, traditional segmentation and manual firewall rule management can’t keep up; autonomous microsegmentation is vital for enabling real-time breach containment.