Rubin: Achieving perfect visibility over all enterprise devices is a fool's errand
Andrew Rubin · a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today · Jan 2, 2019 · at 19:02
Andrew Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of cloud security startup Illumio. He discusses the friction between total corporate access control and operational speed.
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“Every CIO's dream would be to really, truly be able to have a perfect picture of everything that can access every application and every piece of data in their environment, no matter where it is or who provided it, but it's, in a sense, it's a fool's mission. Number one, because it's hard to drill that kind of control over an organization nowadays, and number two, because it's somewhat antithetical to the way that the business is trying to operate to enable speed and agility.”
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