2017 Prediction: The Move Towards Distributed Security Architectures Accelerates
The rapid evolution of cloud-based data centers to support virtualized services and containerized applications will accelerate in 2017 and beyond. This will necessitate a move away from traditional data center security architectures, which rely mostly on perimeter-based firewalls, to a more distributed security architecture. This is required because in today’s multi-tenant and multi-group environments, individual applications cannot be trusted, the potential for threat injection inside the data center is real, and the resulting damage can be disastrous.
