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feeling the pressure to strengthen its digital security, is experimenting with a new approach that makes use of software virtualization, a concept that revolutionized computer servers during the last decade or so.
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Virtualization, which substitutes software for hardware, has reduced costs and improved performance and flexibility in corporate computing, paving the way for modern data centers and certain kinds of cloud computing. Now Coca-Cola and other companies are betting that virtualization will help them make a comparable leap forward in security.
Coca-Cola refers to the technology, part of an internal experiment, as a software defined perimeter. The old notion of a network perimeter that can be defended by firewalls that are often hardware-based and security appliances is long out of date. A software defined perimeter addresses the fluid edge of the network in an era of mobile devices, the cloud and Internet-connected objects such as vending machines and cars.
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