Forbes November 14, 2025
Tony Bradley

Enterprise security once revolved around the idea of a fixed perimeter: defend the network, and the organization stays safe. That model has collapsed. Businesses now run distributed applications across public clouds, private data centers and edge environments that stretch across continents. Identities, APIs and workloads constantly spin up and shut down, creating an attack surface that changes faster than any traditional control can monitor.

The transformation has brought extraordinary flexibility—and extraordinary risk. Each new integration introduces new dependencies, permissions and potential blind spots. The shift to multi-cloud and hybrid strategies has also fragmented responsibility. Security teams must protect assets they don’t fully own, on infrastructure they can’t entirely see.

Fragmentation and Fatigue

To regain control, organizations have assembled extensive toolchains:...

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