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Technologies : Andrew Dugan , CTO
systems ( made largely redundant by the rise of smartphones ) and turned them into mini cloud data centres . The industry is calling that the cloud edge , and it ’ s the next natural trend for the application experience .”
Network Integrated Security “ Security plays a huge part in the move from private , on-premises to public cloud ,” explains Smith . “ Security is a crowded space ,” he says . “ Everyone ’ s got their unique approach on how to make things more secure ; and , in some cases , how to scare people into feeling insecure .
Lumen ’ s goal is simply to create threatfree traffic for its customers . “ The way most security works , you either put a perimeter at the edge of your data centre or cloud , or you ' re doing something on the server to watch for bad behaviour ,” says Smith . “ With
“ My mantra is that security is not something separate from the things we sell , but we build it into the things that customers are buying from us .”
CHRISTOPHER SMITH , VICE PRESIDENT , GLOBAL SECURITY SERVICES , LUMEN
220 April 2021