Security incidents are inevitable. Motivated attackers will find their way in. They might rely on clever pieces of never-beforeseen malware, effective phishing campaigns that yield employee credentials, containers left exposed to the internet or invariably, vulnerable software.

Given its importance, we wanted to get a sense of the state of segmentation as part of defense-in-depth, by conducting a survey with Virtual Intelligence Briefing (ViB) to understand how companies segment today, and what difficulties they face. This survey was independently conducted by ViB—an interactive online community focused on emerging through rapid growth stage technologies. ViB’s community is comprised of more than 1.2M IT practitioners and decision makers who share their opinions by engaging in sophisticated surveys across IT domains including Information Security.