The per-seat licence price typically represents only a fraction of the total cost of Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. A genuine comparison covers much more.
Legacy software has always been a security liability. What's changed is the regulatory environment around it. Using containment - running legacy applications inside a secure, isolated environment - shrinks the attack surface dramatically.
Application-level isolation is fast becoming the most practical next step for organisations that have done the Zero Trust groundwork but still have uncomfortable gaps. Here's why.
The foundations underlying our most critical systems are more fragile than we care to admit. Legacy systems are everywhere, as this article by Mark Churly reveals, from railway systems requiring floppy disks, to power grids running on 1980s software to ATM machines running COBOL code. And the cost to IT budgets in both public and private sector is punitive.
