In the security world, everyone is familiar with the concepts of cyber threat protection and data protection. Whether these protections are delivered from a cloud security platform or they’re handled by appliances in a data center or regional gateway, they essentially prevent bad things from coming into the network and stop sensitive data from leaking out. Workload protection is a different sort of security control that has to do with securing the communications that occur between applications, such as ERP software in one cloud that communicates with a database in another, a line-of-business app that communicates with financial software and collaboration tools, a project management application that exchanges data with CAD software—the possibilities are endless.
