Outpacing Your Security Capacity With Digital Innovation is a Formula for Disaster
Digital transformation has largely been focused on expanding the network through the creation and integration of new edge computing environments. Internal projects, such as the virtualization of the data center, have now turned into the cloud edge through the addition of hybrid cloud environments comprised of private and multiple public cloud systems. This new extension to the traditional network ranges from the simple adoption of cloud-based SaaS solutions such as Salesforce and Office 365, to DevOps centers for the creation and management of business applications, to moving many or all computing resources to full-blown cloud infrastructures.
Other edges have begun to emerge as well. IoT devices create thousands of direct connections to the internet, whether distributed inside the network or as part of a more mobile strategy for collecting or distributing data and services. This is an outgrowth of the BYOD trend, which continues to expand, including corporate and employee-owned devices that not only need instant access to corporate data and cloud-based applications, but that also merge the personal and business lives of employees onto a single device, with significant implications for security.
Branch connectivity has been the latest network edge to undergo dramatic transformation. SD-Branch has become the new Access Edge, requiring flexible access to online services in the cloud, direct access to the public internet, as well as reliable connections to internal corporate resources. And it is also a critical access point for end user, IoT, and other devices connecting to the branch LAN through local wireless access points. Meanwhile, Secure SD-WAN is the new WAN Edge, not only providing secure and agile connectivity, but by also extending its security functionality deep in ..
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