Sometimes, it seems that IT and security teams can’t win. They are judged on how quickly they can deploy their organization’s latest application or digital transformation initiative, but they’re also expected to safeguard those critical applications and data in increasingly complex hybrid networks – and in an ever more sophisticated threat landscape. That’s not an easy balancing act. When an enterprise rolls out a new application, or migrates a service to the cloud, it can take days, or even weeks, to ensure that all the servers and network segments can communicate with each other, while blocking access to hackers and unauthorized users. This is because the network fabric can include hundreds of servers and devices (such as firewalls and routers) as well as virtualized devices in public or private clouds. When making changes to all these devices, teams need to ensure that they don’t disrupt the connectivity that supports the application, and don’t create any security gaps or c...