May 31, 2021
Our changing world, with its more distributed infrastructure and new applications and workloads exposing a larger attack surface, means that perimeter security, while still an important element within an enterprise’s cybersecurity arsenal, is simply no longer enough.
By Hardus Dippenaar, senior network architect at Datacentrix
This traditional ‘castle-and-moat’ principle, which assumes that all security threats come from outside an organisation, has become increasingly problematic. Consequently, many organisations are shifting their focus away from perimeter-based firewalls, and looking instead at the protection of their application workloads, wherever they may reside.
Protecting the changing landscape
The combination of evolving app development and infrastructure that is now distributed on-premises and across multiple clouds – both public and private – calls for a more flexible approach to security. Add to this the fact that the threat environment is on t