While applications are moving to the cloud for scalability and accessibility, many enterprises are still relying on network-centric technologies that were designed when users worked exclusively in the office or connected via VPN. In this paper, ESG discusses its belief that the challenge of using legacy methods in the cloud era will serve as a catalyst for a new user- and application-centric approach to securing internal applications known as the software-defined perimeter (SDP). Read more ⶠ|