Enhancing Network Security With VLANs: A Simple Guide to Segregating Departments
What is a VLAN A VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is a technology that allows you to separate a large network into smaller networks. Why would you want to do this? For security. For example, let’s say you have two departments, HR and IT. If you don’t want the HR department’s PCs to communicate with the IT department’s PCs, you would create two VLANs, one for each department. Then, you would create firewall rules to prevent the PCs from communicating with each other....