I didn't know it then, but the 90's were a simpler time for cybersecurity professionals. The Windows system image was alive and well, and securing corporate data was as simple as building a tall, strong firewall. Companies knew exactly where data was, who was accessing it, and from what device.
Times have changed. A company's digital boundary is no longer black and white. Workers store presentations in Dropbox and customer information in Salesforce, right alongside personal texts from their kids and their favorite mobile game du jour.

The reality is that enterprises struggle to keep track of their data. IT is challenged to answer a difficult question: who is accessing which files, when, and from what device? The growing popularity of cloud services make this question more complex than ever.

The No Boundaries Business
The benefits of software as a service (SaaS) are many. SaaS is flexible. The second a company needs more bandwidth a cloud-based service can instantly meet the demand because of the vast capacity of the service's remote servers. Cloud computing services are typically pay as you go, so there's no need for capital expenditure at all. And SaaS increases collaboration. If a company doesn't use the cloud, workers have to send files back and forth over email, meaning only one person can work on a file at a time and the same document has many names and formats.

It's no surprise cloud services have skyrocketed to the top of the CIO agenda for 2015. More than 40 percent of the respondents to the Computer world Forecast survey said that their organizations will spend more on SaaS and a mix of public, private, hybrid and community clouds in 2015.