I was thinking about this recently. Tight, centralized control over servers, employees computers, and devices is hard to set up, hard to manage, and a huge surf

I was thinking about this recently. Tight, centralized control over servers, employees computers, and devices is hard to set up, hard to manage, and a huge surface where misconfigurations can allow attackers to jump right in. Decentralization is the key. Microservices, or segregated services, stateless (as much as possible), and perhaps even partitioning groups of users into totally separated instances. One group gets attacked and service only goes out for the 1000 users in the group. Of course, infrastructure costs would go up but maybe not that much (since you need less resources for 1000 users than 100,000). This is relatively easy to build from scratch these days thanks to various IaaS providers and DevOps tools (obviously hard for established companies with legacy tech). Then, keep employee computers totally separate from production servers. Let employees back them up themselves, especially since so much can just be stored in the cloud (I'll get there next). Forget about VPNs where everyone can talk to everyone else. Don't try to save money by hosting your own Jira and Bitbucket instances. Pay extra for Atlassian to host for you, then let them deal with security (actually it's cheaper from what I remember). Companies already pay for Office 365 and don't self-host that. Don't host your own email servers. Just focus on the core of what the company needs to do and that's it. This way you spread your attack surface across a whole bunch of services that are better than you at security, and you get the benefit of not having to deal with other issues. If Atlassian or Cloudflare goes down, no big deal; they'll fix it. And all your other stuff still works.