Employees, applications, and infrastructure exist everywhere today – across geographies, cloud environments, and hybrid work settings. Managing this sprawling attack surface is challenging, particularly as cyber threats increase, IT budgets shrink, and regulatory requirements become more strict. Sticking with legacy IT and security approaches – such as backhauling traffic through VPNs, firewalls, and other traditional appliances – can add complexity, inhibit productivity, and ultimately hold your business back.

These changes are demanding a complete paradigm shift in how CIOs and CISOs keep their workforces safe and productive. Organizations are modernizing IT by consolidating more security and networking controls in the cloud. Security best practices like Zero Trust are emerging as effective ways to deliver more rigorous, consistent, and reliable protection across all connections. Longer term, enterprises are pursuing aspirational architectures like Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to achieve a simpler, more secure, and more cost-effective way to connect any source to any destination.

Wherever you are in your Zero Trust or SASE journey, modernizing security to support a ‘work-from-anywhere’ model helps unlock business growth. CIOs improve workforce productivity by simplifying deployment and policy management for administrators. CISOs reduce cyber risk by equipping security teams with better visibility and more granular controls. And CTOs improve IT efficiency by deprecating expensive legacy hardware and unifying security in the cloud.