At Security Field Day, Nile delivered a message that challenges decades of enterprise networking orthodoxy: the traditional Local Area Network architecture is fundamentally obsolete for modern security requirements.

The problem isn’t subtle. While connectivity remains the lifeblood of most organizations, traditional LAN environments—where the majority of users and devices operate—receive the least investment and are consequently the least secure within the enterprise attack surface. Return-to-office mandates, delayed refresh cycles, and resource constraints have created what Nile describes as a “perfect storm” requiring complete architectural rethinking.

Networks were originally built for communication, not security. Everything that followed has been a series of bolt-on solutions creating what industry experts recognize as a massive attack vector: complexity itself.

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