Data privacy is still unfinished business for many companies. With data privacy laws expanding and tightening globally, compliance has become a complicated process that affects all areas of an organization. Gartner predicts that by 2024, 75% of the world's population will have their data covered by some privacy regulation.
The concept of the network perimeter has expanded dramatically in recent years. Many modern organizations operate in a distributed model, with branch locations and endpoints deployed outside of a physical office. But anything connecting to the corporate network is a potential vector for attackers, who can make their way into the network core (and potentially gain access to an organization’s “crown jewels”) by first compromising a branch office or an endpoint.