Re: DISA eliminating firewalls

[kent <kent () songbird com>]

On 07/06/2013 08:55 AM, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> “What will happen when firewalls go away?” is a very good question, i
> don’t have that answer. I simply assert that firewalls will go away,
> because they will become irrelevant. They are already barely relevant
> because of mobile devices. The threatscape is ignoring your firewall and
> walking straight through the front door attached to each individual
> worker in the form of a smart phone or a tablet. Not only do the users
> use them any way they want while away from the office, most of these
> devices are dual-homed to your network and a cellular network plumped
> right to the internet.
>
> It is neither my choice nor my wish that firewalls will go away, merely
> an inevitable consequence of pervasive mobile computing in the enterprise.

Firewalls will be with us for a long time to come.  Old threats don't
become irrelevant just because there are powerful new threats.

Kent
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