Today’s cybercriminals are exploiting the fact that most organizations lack consistent visibility across various segments of their distributed networks. And because of the interconnected nature of data center, campus, cloud, and branch environments, east-west traffic has increased, allowing a successful breach in one part of the network to quickly spread to others. The most effective way to address this challenge is to deploy the exact same security in every part of the network, thereby enabling centralized threat correlation and coordinated protection to multiple areas of enterprise IT simultaneously. But the complexities and differences between various network ecosystems have made that difficult.