Compass-thinking bias can hinder your cloud migration

**Executive summary:** The article argues that the traditional east/west versus north/south network metaphor and perimeter-focused defenses are outdated due to cloud, remote access, and mobile work; it recommends adopting zero-trust principles—protect the user, treat all traffic as untrusted, apply microsegmentation and software-defined perimeters, and design data centers and access to behave like cloud services for direct, secure access from any device or network.