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Ready to turn CISSP Domain 3.5 into practical moves you can deploy on Monday? We unpack how real SOC teams apply microsegmentation, identity-aware controls, and targeted inspection to crush lateral movement without dragging performance. Along the way, we demystify AI’s role: where detection engineering benefits from crisp use cases, how Tier 1 triage speeds up, and why models still need human oversight and rigorous validation to stay trustworthy.

We also step through common network design traps that drain budgets and weaken defenses. VLAN sprawl looks tidy on paper but collapses under hybrid cloud dynamics. Central chokepoints promise control yet introduce latency and single failure domains. The smarter path is selective inline inspection where risk is highest, strong encryption everywhere else, and host-based enforcement that understands identity and context after decryption. If you’ve been tempted to collapse controls into one “do-everything” appliance, we lay out the hidden cost: a fragile core that turns into a single point of failure when you need it most.

To ground the theory, we walk through scenario-style questions that mirror real decisions security leaders face: stopping east-west movement, balancing HA with inspection, drawing zero trust boundaries that don’t assume implicit trust, and enforcing policy on encrypted traffic. You’ll leave with patterns you can adapt immediately: start small, define use cases, validate outputs like code, and iterate with tight feedback loops. Whether you run a SOC, partner with an MSP, or are targeting a first-time CISSP pass, this conversation gives you a clear map from concept to control. If this helped, follow the show, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review so others can find it too.

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