How do we connect multi-region and multi-cloud servers, containers and developers without firewalls, VPNs, IPs, subnets, ACLs, NSGs, VPCs, NAT, VLANs to manage which systems can communicate securely? For the last thirty years we’ve needed complex IP-based configs, but there's a better way. Identity-based networks are coming. In this talk you’ll learn what they are and why they matter.