Compliance Enforcement

In networking terms, compliance enforcement is the process of ensuring compliance with legislation, regulations, governance, standards and internal policies. Many network devices and software have the ability to detect and inspect network traffic, match it against policy rules, and either allow, deny (drop) or forward to another system for further analysis. This is particularly critical with new and possibly disruptive regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force in the very near future.