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2020 saw a hugely accelerated evolution in the cybersecurity landscape. The pandemic pushed workforces remote and caused companies to move up plans for digital transformation, cloud services, and a plethora of remote access technologies. Meanwhile, the traditional operating models are not and will not be completely replaced in most organizations, and organizations have been left with a huge range of perimeters — from the endpoint to secure access service edge (SASE), from system-level role-based access control to virtual private networks, creating huge operational complexity. This is compounded by a technical staff that was probably already stretched, and a workforce that is operating under a new paradigm.