This article was originally published on September 18th, 2018. It has been updated and expanded on.

For years a company's cybersecurity needs were left up to their IT Department. IT was responsible for every decision, every purchase. The C-Suite and its occupants had bigger fish to fry and what little attention InfoSec received, typically dried up before anyone dug in deep at that executive level.

For years a company's cybersecurity needs were left up to their IT Department. IT was responsible for every decision, every purchase. The C-Suite and its occupants had bigger fish to fry and what little attention InfoSec received, typically dried up before anyone dug in deep at that executive level.

The security threat landscape keeps changing and Security7 Networks changes right along with it. Every day brings unique challenges and threats to our door, and we rise to meet both with the best solutions and strategies available.

As organizations embrace the cloud, whether public, private, or a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, their IT team is not only required to architect new networking platforms or infrastructures, but also figure out how to secure this new environment. Unfortunately, many of the tools these organizations currently have in place don’t always scale into a cloud or virtualized environment. And even if they do, they actually result in increased complexity because they often function as separate and isolated security devices, which can severely hamper such things as unified visibility and control.

Equifax was hacked. 143 million Social Security Numbers were compromised. That’s a just under half the population of the United States. It’s pretty scary.