Re: This just in: Firewalls are obsolete

[Derek Vadala <derek () cynicism com>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Gadi Evron wrote:

> Further, they say that if you spend the effort of securing laptops which will 
> be used both on the Internet and on your organizational network, and 
> determine that that is enough, why not do the same for the rest of your 
> network?
>
> If you can bring every (erm, every?!) machine in your network to where it is 
> secure enough to be on the Internet, on its own.. then why do you still need 
> a perimeter? According to them the only reason to still keep one would be 
> management related.

Well, for one, there might be a lot of devices on your internal network 
that can not benefit from these types of security mechanisms simply 
becuase you can't install software on them.
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