The Year in Review—and the Year to Come by Oliver Tavakoli

A forward-looking analysis argues that the pandemic permanently accelerated a shift to cloud-first, de-perimeterized security and hybrid remote work, urging organizations to harden endpoints with EDR, use SaaS secure web gateways, move identity to cloud IdPs, replace broad VPNs with ZTNA, and adopt modern NDR for unified visibility across SaaS/IaaS/PaaS—ultimately improving resilience and agility for future disruptions.