Location Independence

Written by Allison Francis
March 19, 2021

“In our current post-pandemic landscape with most folks working from anywhere (WFA), the network perimeter is no longer limited to the local area network (LAN). Whereas before companies invested in advanced firewalls and best-of-breed security hardware protecting their corporate offices, today we have broken down that security perimeter and made it infinite in scope. LAN apps once tied to on-premises servers are now cloud apps (SaaS) tied to some remotely hosted data center. Employees once tied to their company desktops are now bringing their own devices to work from anywhere.

The post-pandemic world has forced us to reimagine how we will work. The corporate culture now requires WFA and BYOD, whereas before it was a flexible exception not the rule.

Unfortunately for IT, we now need to rethink how we can set up network perimeters that have no limits. How do we support apps that are based in the cloud? Do our security tools support someone’s non-Windows device? How do we create redundancy for a remote data center that’s no longer in-house?”

—Anthony Oren, president, Nero Consulting

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Allison Francis

Allison Francis is a writer, public relations and marketing communications professional with experience working with clients in industries such as business technology, telecommunications, health care, education, the trade show and meetings industry, travel/tourism, hospitality, consumer packaged goods and food/beverage. She specializes in working with B2B technology companies involved in hyperconverged infrastructure, managed IT services, business process outsourcing, cloud management and customer experience technologies. Allison holds a bachelor's degree in public relations and marketing from Drake University. An Iowa native, she resides in Denver, Colorado.