This article is a good discussion about what a firewall can be expected to do, and what it can't. "In most organizations, firewalls are now a commodity: everyone has at least one. In the future, access controls will need to become . . .
This article is a good discussion about what a firewall can be expected to do, and what it can't. "In most organizations, firewalls are now a commodity: everyone has at least one. In the future, access controls will need to become more granular, all the way down to the data level. .. Historically, many technologists took the view that a firewall was security-a terrible misconception, but widely perceived as true. The idea was supported by another misconception: that if you protected your perimeter network with a firewall, you were inherently protecting the data on your internal network. Accordingly, the only business requirement was to protect the network. Systems administrators set up accounts on individual systems, of course, but most technology managers contented themselves with the thought that the perimeter network provided all the protection they needed. "