Decades ago, hub-and-spoke network designs were state-of-the-art, and firewalls and their underlying networking infrastructures were young, spry, and healthy. These were the right technology choices for that era, serving faithfully and doing their jobs well.
In the modern cloud computing era, however, they’re IT burdens, and castle-and-moat architectures are fundamentally incompatible with the zero trust security paradigm.
In this ebook, we outline the symptoms showing why your firewall is unfit to handle today’s zero trust security world, including:
- Congestion and lack of real-time visibility when inspecting traffic at scale
- High risk of internet-borne infections spreading across your hybrid cloud
- “Policy inflammation” from too many rules slowing you down
- Inability to see or stop lateral movement or ransomware
