ThreatMatic As the world held its breath last week, suffering through what many are calling the 'most devastating IT outage', our engineers at ThreatMatic couldn't resist the call to compare and contrast the two security platforms.
The headlines on any given day in 2024 are rife with accounts of cyberattacks around the world. The attack surface is global and the availability of tools to construct these malicious threats is widespread.
Consider the vast and chaotic expanse of the Internet today: at every corner of this free-for-all web of information and data, and often unsuspecting patrons/users, increasingly well-organized criminals are perpetuating simple yet powerful phishing and ransomware attacks.
With ever increasing frequency, apps are reaching out for updates from the Cloud. And with an ever-expanding mobile workforce, your users risk suboptimal network performance whenever software updates take over the bandwidth.
If you ask yourself: where exactly is the security 'perimeter' today? It's a nebulous cloud where users and applications are diffused, especially in a post Covid world with so many of us working remotely.
By enforcing application and user identity checking at the 'end-points', before network traffic makes its way in or out to the network, is by far the best and safest approach to thwarting modern threats.
Zero Trust is a security concept and model that challenges the traditional perimeter-based approach to network security. In a traditional security model, there is a presumed level of trust once a user or device gains access to the internal network.
Imagine a world where the default security posture between 'clients' and 'data' is defined by an express and explicit contract that requires that their identification is a prerequisite prior to exchange of network data.
It's very common today for teams and collaborators to be spread about the world, yet be required to coaslesce as a group or team with intricate application-to-data rules: consider the case with a globally diffused app development community that is dynamically accessing resources on hybrid clouds and on-premises data-centers.
The attack surface permeates our entire planet: every nook and cranny and remote outpost on the Internet is rife with opportunistic bad actors, who are unsurprisingly well organized motivated by the vast reserves of unsuspecting customers around the world.