The way people work has changed. Driven by the increasing use of cloud services and mobile devices, people now expect to be able to work at any time, from any
place, and on any device. These changes are dramatically altering the network and security infrastructure in many organizations. Rather than staying with a legacy, hub-and-spoke network architecture, with offices interconnected over costly, dedicated links and remote users accessing centralized resources over VPN, more organizations are moving to a direct-to-web and direct-to-cloud model.
Furthermore, the underlying nature of the cloud and web is also changing, with static websites giving way to dynamically-generated and personalized web services as well as an ever-growing set of cloud services housing an organization’s critical applications and data. To keep pace with these changes, a fundamentally different approach to security is needed—an approach that allows organizations to address these changes head on with a unified cloud and web security platform that was designed from the start for today’s modern, distributed enterprise.