It’s becoming increasingly harder to manage the volume of threats coming into enterprise networks as attackers become more sophisticated, the threat landscape expands and enterprises continue to adopt modern applications at cloud scale.

Early internet data communications were enabled through the use of a protocol called HyperText Transmission Protocol (HTTP) to transfer data between nodes on the internet. HTTP essentially establishes the “request-response” rules to be used between a “client” (i.e. web browser) and “server”(computer hosting a website) throughout the session.