Cyber security and networking have been on a collision course for more than a decade. These two disciplines have historically operated in silos in which network engineers did network things and security practitioners focused solely on protecting threat protection. The two groups were often at odds with one another as security tools and processes often got in the way of network and application performance. These opposing goals have created a fair amount of animosity between the two groups. I’ve actually experienced this prior to being an analyst; I was in corporate IT and was a network engineer for years. I always believed the security team didn’t fully understand our challenges, although I’m sure they felt the same way about network staff.