The New Perimeter, Part 1: A Short History of the Firewall

The perimeter-based defense model — a centralized, physical firewall guarding a well-defined network edge — is effectively obsolete. As business operations move to hybrid, multi-cloud environments, the “network boundary” now stretches to wherever an authorized user or workload happens to be running. ...

July 10, 2026 · 3 min · Jason, Cyber Professional