How information technology products do what they do matters, and nowhere is this truer than in the case of security. IT infrastructure used to be dedicated to a specific task. But with the rise of virtualization, software defined everything and cloud computing, that changed. Shared infrastructure became the norm, but the centralization of IT, and especially clouds, made consuming IT easier. Both the scope and scale of IT increased and, along the way, things were automated to cut down on the management burden.
IT at scale requires automation, and while many enterprises are doing it today, automation itself can be burdensome. Managing and maintaining ...