The Castle Walls Have Crumbled
I remember when corporate security was simple. You built a big digital wall, a firewall, around your office network and that was that. It was a fortress. Anyone inside was trusted, anyone outside was not. That model is now laughably obsolete, a relic of a bygone era. The pandemic simply finished it off. With half the country working from their kitchen tables, the "perimeter" dissolved. Every laptop, every phone, every smart toaster became a potential backdoor into the kingdom.
This isn't a temporary problem that will vanish when we all trudge back to the office. This is the new normal. The attack surface, as the experts call it, has expanded permanently. Criminals are no longer lone hackers in hoodies. They are sophisticated, multinational enterprises running ransomware as a service. They have business plans. This creates a relentless, ever escalating arms race, and that’s where the opportunity lies.