If You Give a Stack a Firewall

The real story behind the legacy IT mess, and how to break the loop 

No enterprise planned for a networking and security environment like this. The IT stack grew one justifiable decision at a time. A firewall here, a VPN there, then ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and every other tool or solution that followed. They weren’t designed to work together, but they were the only options IT had.

Complexity showed up each time a new tool solved a problem, but created a new one. Over time, integration turned into overhead, and overhead turned into risk.

This eBook breaks down how a decades-long cause-and-effect loop created a legacy IT stack no one ever wanted to build, and why SASE closes the loop for good.

What’s inside:

• How IT tool stacking created an architecture no one intended
• How a series of reasonable fixes created an unreasonable amount of complexity
• Where visibility, performance, and control break down when tools don’t share context
• How a converged, cloud-native platform replaces the entire legacy mess without rebuilding the stack