cyber trends
As more applications sit in the public
cloud and more offices use the
Internet to connect to the cloud or
SaaS applications, the attack surface
is drastically increasing. As you
connect 100x more applications, data,
devices and people to the Internet,
what happens to the attack surface? It
increases 100-fold.
Think of it this way. If you want 100 friends
to be able to reach you, you can publish
your phone number on a website. Now
they can call you but so can robocallers.
This is precisely what happens when you
publish applications on a public cloud and
use the Internet to reach them. Your users
can access them but so can a million
hackers who can discover vulnerabilities
or launch a DDoS attack.
How do you solve it? Suppose you hired
a phone operator and gave him the
names of your 100 friends. Your friends
would be able to quickly reach you when
they call the operator, but a robocaller
Jay Chaudhry, CEO and Founder, Zscaler
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