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Traffic Flow Document

Describes north-south, east-west and management traffic between systems, including protocols, ports, expected volumes and security boundaries.

10 sections

1. Purpose & Scope
State why this document exists and what it covers / excludes.
Project nameCustomer / organisationSite / data centreIn-scope systems / applications
2. References & Definitions
List supporting documents and define terms used throughout.
3. Logical Architecture & Trust Zones
Show the security domains and how systems are grouped.
Trust zones / security domainsIn-scope systems / applications
4. Flow Matrix
Tabulate every flow with source, destination, protocol, port and direction.
In-scope systems / applicationsFlow directions to documentProtocols in scope
5. North-South Flows
Describe ingress/egress flows crossing the perimeter.
6. East-West Flows
Describe intra-fabric flows between application tiers.
7. Management & Out-of-Band Flows
Document management plane traffic kept separate from data plane.
8. Capacity & Performance Assumptions
Capture the load envelope the design must sustain.
Peak aggregate bandwidth (Gbps)
9. Security Controls & Compliance Mapping
Map flows to firewall/ACL/segmentation controls and compliance requirements.
Compliance frameworks
10. Appendices
Supporting reference material.

Fill inputs

10 required, 2 optional

Project name*

Text

Customer / organisation*

Text

Site / data centre*

Text

Author*

Text

Document version*

Text

Document date*

Date

In-scope systems / applications*

List

One per line. Used as the row identifiers in the flow matrix.

Trust zones / security domains*

List

e.g. DMZ, App, DB, Mgmt, OOB

Flow directions to document*

Multi-choice

Protocols in scope*

Multi-choice

Peak aggregate bandwidth (Gbps)

Number

Compliance frameworks

Multi-choice

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