cyber trends
THE CORPORATE WORKPLACE
IS CHANGING AND SO, TOO, WILL
THE LEGACY CORPORATE NETWORK.
JAY CHAUDHRY, CEO, CHAIRMAN AND
FOUNDER AT ZSCALER, EXPLAINS WHAT
THE CHANGES WILL BE IN THE WAY WE
ALL CONNECT.
he walls of
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the corporate
workplace will
become fluid for
enterprises over
this decade. This
will be a movement
driven by the way you want to work
and the birth of the fully Internet-driven
workplace; put another way, it’s the death
of the legacy corporate network which
naturally means the death of traditional
network security. It’s a dramatic
improvement that will restyle the way
we all connect, rewrite how IT leaders
help you access work and reshape
entire technology markets where legacy
infrastructure companies will struggle.
This movement will drive jobs closer to
workers’ lives as part of a monumental
reckoning with connectivity, mobility,
cloud and the way we all want to work.
Mobility, BYOD, or whatever you may
call it, may be commonplace in Silicon
2020s: The
decade that
tears down
LANs, WANs,
VPNs and
Firewalls
Valley, large cosmopolitan cities and
some verticals like high tech but outside
of these fairly early adopters, it is not
mainstream. We do already see this
happening, though, in pockets. However,
the 5G era is going to dramatically speed
the adoption of this new way of working
and that will, in turn, speed the demise of
the traditional corporate network.
The fallout from this change in the way
we work will be extreme. Here are four of
my predictions for the 2020 decade.
1. Enterprises will finally eliminate
the Internet attack surface
Any time you connect to the Internet,
there is an IP address to connect you,
often through a firewall. A firewall is like
a door that protects a house or a castle.
Every firewall with an Internet-facing
IP address is an attack surface that
creates significant business risk. New
approaches and technologies will
evolve this decade to mitigate this risk.
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