According to Forbes, 1 out of 5 people are working remotely. With a more distributed workforce, enterprises have significantly changed their operation style, encompassing shifts in company culture, meeting structures, and a surge in Virtual and Augmented Reality. Along with them, the approach to cybersecurity also evolved.

To better understand, let’s rewind to the early 2000s when employees were onsite, connected to the company’s corporate network acting as a security perimeter. All the egress and ingress traffic went through the perimeter protected by firewalls. With the advancement in Internet infrastructure, employees started working from home but continued connecting to corporate networks using VPNs. As years passed, devices became smarter, and how we access work spread from company-issued devices to personal mobiles and tablets. Subsequent growth in Cloud and IoT moved the workloads from running on-prem to operating globally, effectively dissolving the concept of a security perimeter, and demanding a new approach to secure enterprises.

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