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Today ’ s IT security stakeholders are well aware that zero trust is the right security model for modern digital businesses . Surveys show that as many as 78 % of enterprise security programs have either adopted zero trust network access or are planning to do so in the future . They know that focusing directly on securing users , data , and applications – instead of the network – is key to protecting today ’ s data-driven , remote workenabled enterprises . fundamentally incompatible with the zero trust paradigm . Here ’ s a diagnostic guide outlining seven symptoms that your firewall is unfit for today ’ s zero trust security world . Any one of these seven symptoms is a sign that your organization needs a cloud security cure .

SYMPTOM # 1

A lack of visibility when trying to inspect traffic at scale

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Decades ago , when hub-and-spoke network designs were state-of-the-art , firewalls and the networking infrastructures built around them were young , spry , and healthy . They were the right technology choice for that era , serving faithfully and doing their jobs well . In the modern cloud computing era , however , their presence is a burden , and castle-and-moat architecture designs are

Regardless of their form factor , appliance-based – firewalls are simply unable to inspect SSL-encrypted sockets layer ( SSL ) encrypted traffic at scale . This becomes more and more of a problem as the percentage of global internet traffic that ’ s SSLencrypted increases . Attackers know about this increase and are concealing more and more advanced threats within encrypted traffic . p

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