John, when your organization's on-prem networks need protection, IT departments typically rely on old, legacy hardware boxes. These boxes are expensive, hard to manage, and slow. To complicate matters further, legacy approaches to connectivity (re: MPLS) and security (re: on-prem firewalling and DDoS ‘scrubbing centers’) just don’t work for today’s distributed workforce and cloud-hosted applications.
Between cloud app adoption growth and the work-from-home mode of operation becoming part of business as usual, the Internet is mission-critical: to share data, solve challenges, and stay connected. But as it increases in importance, you’re confronting greater network demands and a growing risk of cyber threats. |