In the past, we measured the speed at which security could process a packet and push it on to the next hop. Security solutions and services that introduced too much latency into the speed of response to the user were considered less than optimal.
Why? Since the broad adoption of the Internet as a platform for commerce and communication, we have continually measured the performance of multiple domains – notably app delivery and security – based on the speed of response to the user.
As such, security solutions with high latency were rarely used for more than monitoring, which made their efficacy nearly zero. After all, if the lock is merely installed and never used, it doesn’t do much to stop intruders, does it?
