Mar 02 2008
(Note: we have our first two event dates and locations
March 25th: Chicago
April 1st: Seattle)
By Jim Reavis
This is an open letter to the best and the brightest network security architects to help me on a project to help design the ultimate next generation firewall. Firewall 2.0 to deal with Web 2.0. I am organizing half-day collaboration sessions in several cities and will also organize an online forum once we have completed our initial face-to-face meetings.
The problems we are trying to address are familiar. Firewalls today tend to be blind to the bulk of threats tunneled inside of port 80. Enterprise data leakage is ignored for the most part. Network security architects are required to deploy a variety of security point solutions that do not communicate and integrate well with each other. If the payload is encrypted, forget about it. Meanwhile, technical innovations are bringing new devices and applications into enterprises at a breakneck speed (iPhone anyone?), without regard for security vetting. The problem is getting worse, and we need some out-of-the-box thinking to find the solutions.
Our goal is to get some of the best minds together to collaborate for a few hours hours and talk about key issues that the next generation firewall must address. We hope to brainstorm a few innovative ideas and create a permanent “birds of a feather” group that can discuss these issues on a regular basis together and online.
The events are by invitation only. If you live and breathe network security, please drop me a line.
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Posted by Jim.Reavis on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008, at 10:05 pm, and filed under Articles, Firewall 2.0, Technical.
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