Network segmentation projects fail in predictable patterns

Most enterprise networks have segmentation on the roadmap. Many have had it there for years. A survey of 400 U.S.-based network security practitioners who lived through failed segmentation projects finds that failure clusters into four distinct patterns, and the type of failure a team experiences depends heavily on the kind of environment and approach they attempted. The research, conducted in early 2026, applied latent class analysis to survey responses measuring both general IT project failure … appeared first on Help Net Security.