The Last Great Cloud Transformation

APIs are driving innovation by enabling seamless integration of cloud services, generative AI, and new digital capabilities—but they’re also expanding the enterprise attack surface. From zero-day exploits to authentication abuse, API security is now a critical concern as breaches can lead to data exposure and fraud. In this episode of The Last Great Cloud Transformation, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Cloudflare e...

Digital-native businesses—those built for the digital age—enjoy a competitive edge, operating with greater agility, efficiency, and security than many traditional organizations. Their ability to seamlessly integrate digital operations and cloud-based security enables them to innovate rapidly while protecting against evolving cyber threats. But what holds other businesses back from embracing a digital-native approach? In this episod...

Public sector organizations have made significant strides in technology modernization, embracing cloud environments, SaaS applications, and advanced security tools to enhance reliability and security. However, they now face the challenge of balancing innovation with strict regulatory compliance, hybrid workforce support, and evolving cybersecurity threats. In this episode of The Last Great Cloud Transformation series, host Mitch As...

Organizations face a rising tide of external security threats targeting web apps, APIs and networks critical to business operations. The growing complexity of applications—driven by third-party integrations and generative AI—has expanded the attack surface, while traditional security approaches, like blocking known threats, fail to detect API-specific attacks. Relying on multiple point solutions often introduces management complexi...

Organizations eager to accelerate cloud transformations often face roadblocks from outdated legacy network architectures that struggle to support modern demands. Managing dedicated network infrastructure and hardware appliances while enabling access to SaaS apps and the Internet for diverse users creates challenges in visibility, control, performance, security, and cost. Cloud-based networking offers a solution by simplifying netwo...

As enterprises shift applications to the cloud and adopt hybrid work models, traditional networks have struggled to keep pace, becoming more complex, less agile, and unable to deliver the security, performance, and manageability needed for modern demands. Legacy designs don’t adequately support today’s cloud-centric and distributed work environments, leaving organizations in need of a cloud-era network approach. Cloud-delivered net...

In today's episode, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Annika Garbers (Cloudflare). As nearly all enterprises embrace multi-cloud strategies, with 98% using or planning to use multiple clouds, they gain access to unique services, cutting-edge technologies, and competitive pricing. However, this approach brings significant security challenges. As organizations expand their cloud usage, they often lose visibility and co...

As organizations accelerate their cloud journey, many are losing visibility into and control over their IT environments. That’s a problem not only for securing apps and data, but also for complying with a growing number of government regulations. In particular, governments around the world are implementing data sovereignty and localization regulations such as GDPR in the EU, CCPA in California and many others regionally that define...

Organizations typically train AI models in large, centralized data centers provided by public cloud providers, but to effectively use AI in applications, it’s crucial to run these models closer to users. While small AI models can run on devices like smartphones and laptops, larger models require a robust edge network, consisting of GPU-powered data centers worldwide, to deliver fast, AI-driven insights. A connectivity cloud facilit...

For 20 years the cloud computing revolution has been transforming how organizations operate and innovate. But the revolution is not yet complete. The final areas of transformation are networking and security, which have remained grounded in on-premises thinking and technologies. No longer. A majority of enterprises are planning to increase spending on network modernization. But what should the new, cloud-oriented network look like?...