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Lab compliance

Organizations prefer having lab networks to test systems before deployment of new solutions or equipment. Traffic from this zone to the primary network is restricted so that operations in the lab setup do not disrupt the production systems and networks. A policy enforcement at the connection between the production systems and lab setup can ensure that only systems that comply to the enterprise policy are allowed into the production network from a lab subnet. Figure 3-14shows a lab policy enforcement scenario.

LAB Compliance

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Figure 3-14 Lab compliance

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