Digital transformation and the move to the cloud have expanded the boundaries of business beyond the enterprise network and introduced new applications and workloads that must also be secured.

The application environment in any modern enterprise is now a diverse and dynamic collection of legacy, hybrid, and more modern cloud-native applications with myriad network and data path interactions within and between applications.

Application workloads, too, have become a complex and distributed collection of virtual machines, containers, container orchestration platforms, cloud-native services, and legacy bare metal deployments