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The (Network) Perimeter is Dead – Long Live the Software-Defined Perimeter
At the risk of stating the obvious, the FireEye/Solar Winds attack personifies the increasing security vulnerability and risk posed by our continued reliance on aging, perimeter-centric network infrastructure. This attack, considered extremely serious, enabled access...
Think of SDP as a Private Application VPN
Over the last nine months, we’ve seen unprecedented growth in the number of corporate employees working away from the office. Many rely on VPNs for connectivity; IT Security and Network Ops trust the Virtual Private Networks with their cadre of external and internal...
Zero Trust and the Software Defined Perimeter
It makes more sense when you understand the role of “Dynamic Enforcement” Last week I came across another article educating readers on the advent of Zero Trust architecture (ZTA) and how it represents a new paradigm for securing critical applications and data -...
Software Defined Perimeter – The Wizard Behind the Zero Trust Curtain
David Linthicum is an internationally recognized authority on cloud complexity and security. He regularly and accurately reports on trends and challenges faced by the enterprise as it attempts to tap into the economic and performance benefits of moving workloads to...
Software-Defined Perimeter – Trick or Treat?
Have you been hearing about Software-Defined Perimeters (SDP) and wondering what all the fuss is about? Are you reading about Zero Trust as the next great security paradigm but wondering if any organization has successfully implemented a zero trust model? On October...
The Nuances of a True SDP Solution and its Relationship with Zero Trust
Zero Trust has entered the marketing lexicon. Companies are adding “zero trust” to their library of SEO terms giving you a sense that “everybody has one” – whatever that “one” might be. No one disputes the potential benefits of the zero trust message - deny-all,...
Zero Trust Adoption Will Continue to Lag Until “Dynamic Enforcement” Is Better Understood
Zero Trust continues to be in the news and not for all the right reasons. A recent Deloitte survey with 600 respondents showed that the COVID-19 pandemic has motivated 37% more organizations to increase adoption of Zero Trust than were previously planning to earlier...
Covid Pandemic Driving Growth in Multicloud Environments That Are Still Not Secure
Containers alone are not the answer InfoWorld recently published an article by the renowned cloud expert David Linthicum. In the article Linthicum noted how the Covid pandemic and remote workforce is fueling cloud adoption and then clear described two cloud...
Containers and Kubernetes – a New Opportunity to Build in Security
Software-defined perimeter architecture is key to security “Shifting Left” in CI/CD A recent article in Data Center Knowledge - What Containers and Kubernetes Mean for Colocation Data Centers - described how flexibility associated with containerizing...
DevSecOps Advocates a Shift Left for Security to Achieve Agile ATO
Software-Defined Perimeter provides integrated security controls for ATO A recent GitLab white paper provides an elegant description of DevSecOps and how proactive security integration reduces an agency’s risk and vulnerabilities. It accurately outlines a solution...