UnHacked the podcast with hosts Justin Shelley, Bryan Lachapelle, and Mario Zaki.
Your firewall is not enough anymore - and your IT team may not be telling you that.
In Episode 81 of UnHacked, Justin and Bryan dig into one of the most misunderstood concepts in cybersecurity: the network perimeter. It used to be simple. Put a firewall on the edge of your network, install antivirus, done. But that world is gone. Today, your data lives in Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dropbox, cloud apps your HR manager signed up for last Tuesday, your employee's home network, the guest Wi-Fi at your office, and the IoT thermostat down the hall. The "perimeter" is everywhere - which means it has to be protected everywhere.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why the traditional firewall is still necessary - but nowhere near sufficient How cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 require their own security layer (and what that actually looks like)
- The hidden danger of VPN tunnels drilled through your firewall during the remote work era.
- Why your guest Wi-Fi might not actually be a guest network
- What shadow IT is and why an employee could be walking out the door with your entire company's data right now - legally, and invisibly
The single most important first step to securing any business: knowing what you actually have Plus, Justin shares the one question every business owner should ask their IT person - and warns that most of the time, the answer they get back will tell them everything they need to know about how exposed they really are. This is Episode 7 in the UnHacked Cybersecurity Basics mini-series.
