Many lessons were learned in enterprise IT and security teams in 2020, right down to the final weeks of the year with the SolarWinds attack. We closed out a miserable year with a devastating reminder about the danger of third party access and supply chain attacks.
Another painful lesson for IT teams was that current application access technologies, such as virtual private networks (VPN) or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), are too difficult to manage and scale. Even the most resource rich companies were forced to ration VPN access for employees, third parties, and partners. This is the opposite of digital transformation, and everything modern business is about. On top of those operational challenges was the fact that these solutions are not secure, and certainly not part of a zero-trust framework.