In a scenario where a regional healthcare provider is implementing a strategy to segregate its administrative, clinical, and guest networks to both minimize its attack surface and comply with health information privacy regulations, which technology should be utilized to not only separate the segments but also enforce distinct security policies and control inter-segment traffic?
Quality of Service (QoS) configuration for traffic prioritization
Transport Layer Security (TLS) for secure communications
A next-generation firewall (NGFW) provides the advanced functionality needed for logical network segmentation, augmenting classic firewall capabilities with features such as application awareness and intrusion prevention. NGFWs ensure that strict security policies can be enforced and managed between segmented zones, which is perfect for an environment handling sensitive health records. This technology provides the required granularity for compliance with healthcare regulations, making it the optimal choice over other options that either lack the sophistication in policy management or are not primarily designed for inter-segment traffic control within the same network.
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