Frankly Speaking 7/5/21 - Managing network security in a cloud world

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Hope everyone had a great July 4th weekend! I can’t believe it’s been a month since I started to write again, and it’s helped a lot of my thinking around security strategy in various environments.

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In the past, I written that smart VCs shouldn’t invest in network security. It was based on the premise that as companies move to the cloud and adopt hybrid work environments, corporate perimeters start to deteriorate, focusing more on endpoints and identity. Moreover, the cloud provides limited network visibility for traditional network security tools to be effective. With all that, it makes sense to have a new paradigm for securing the network in a cloud-first world.

In this newsletter, I’ll discuss various network threats in the cloud world, and how we are able to address them with a variety of techniques and tools.