Recent cyber threats like the PetitPotam relay attack on Microsoft, the SolarWinds supply chain compromise, and countless others have put a bright spotlight on the age-old debate: Is the cloud as secure as an on-premise infrastructure? As enterprises are targeted with increasingly sophisticated on-premise breaches – despite firewalls and other roadblocks – it is clear data center proximity does not equal impenetrable protection. Tim Callan and Jason Soroko explain the benefits of a cloud-based approach to security and why certificate-based authentication between all systems is critical to securing enterprises today and tomorrow.