Understanding the traditional approach to security
Security. It has always been important to enterprises worldwide because without it, the risk factors of compromise, data exfiltration, and overall breach, which may or may not be publicly disclosed, having a massive financial and trust impact on an enterprise increases greatly. Most of us realize the shift that is occurring in the world of security. Historically, if you look back at security, it has been focused on network boundaries, getting feeds and logging from all network appliances and all devices, and very much a four-wall approach to any resource access – meaning, an employee must be within a known network boundary, such as a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, if they are not within the office, or of course, within an office subnet or known network segment. While network segmentation and security boundaries do indeed possess their importance in security, it has been an increasingly losing battle, one that comes...
