Despite being a critical component of modern application delivery and security, threat intelligence platforms have traditionally not been tightly integrated with application delivery controllers. This is likely to change as ADCs become uniquely suited to providing the shared intelligence to power threat intelligence.
Until recently, ADCs have been primarily deployed as large appliances or cloud instances with one or two deployed per organization, even for large organizations with diverse and geographically dispersed compute footprints. In addition, these traditional ADCs are monolithic sofware systems that cannot take advantage of the intelligence and automation that Kubernetes and containers bring to newer cloud native applications.
