Over the past several years, organizations have been engaged in expanding their multi-edge networking strategies to not only enable new work-from-anywhere (WFA) realities but also support workers as they become increasingly dependent on cloud applications and environments to do their jobs. However, as these networks grow to meet new business demands, the attack surface increases.
The result is a growing gap between network functionality and security coverage that not only inherently exposes organizations to more points of compromise but also degrades the user experience of those remote workers that still rely on the conventional, virtual private network (VPN)-only solutions to access the network. This is usually because all their application traffic still needs to be backhauled through the network to receive security protections and access controls.