Why Your Old Security is Utterly Useless
For years, companies have relied on cybersecurity that works like a castle wall. It was designed to keep the bad guys out of a clearly defined perimeter. The problem is, the cloud has completely obliterated that perimeter. Your data isn’t sitting neatly inside the castle anymore. It’s in London, New York, and Singapore all at once. Your employees are accessing it from their kitchen tables. Trying to protect this with a traditional firewall is about as effective as using a garden fence to stop a flood. This is where a new breed of company comes in. They build security for a world with no walls, a concept often called ‘zero trust’. It’s a wonderfully cynical idea that, frankly, I can get behind. It assumes no one is to be trusted, ever, and every single request for data must be verified.