Since the rise of cloud computing, the public internet has been the default connectivity network that carried data and resources between business offices and cloud data centers. These internet connections worked well enough for organizations that maintained adequate firewall protections or weren’t subject to data privacy compliance requirements. But the fact remained that if organizations didn’t secure their connection to the public cloud or if their firewall wasn’t up to date, these businesses ran the risk of having their connections to the cloud hacked and their data exposed.
