[funsec] CSOs Still Clinging to Firewalls

[Gadi Evron]

I like my perimeter, or what's left of it.


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> "Hello, Corporate Security Weenies. Please get with the program."
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> Via CSO Online.
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> [snip]
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> Although attracting support worldwide, American businesses aren’t
> necessarily buying into the Jericho Forum’s urging to rely less on
> hardened perimeter security -- firewalls and intrusion detection -- in
> favor of tougher internal security.
>
> The forum, which is made up of CSOs from some of the largest international
> corporations, says it sees growing adoption of its once-radical idea that
> businesses should reduce dependence on firewalls as a way to defend against
> Internet threats. Nearly half -- 45% -- of those polled by the forum say
> they are implementing network security that complies with forum
> recommendations.
>
> Forty-eighty percent say they agree strongly that such a security
> realignment actually improves their companies’ ability to do business,
> according to a survey of forum members. About half the members responded to
> the survey, 64% European and 29% American.
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> [snip]
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> More:
> http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=33173
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> - - ferg
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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