Are firewalls expendable?

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07/04/05

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Today's focus:

Are firewalls expendable?

By Ellen Messmer

The firewall's fate is up for debate.

For more than a decade, firewalls have stood guard at the
perimeter of corporate networks to defend against the Internet's
perils. But a growing number of security managers, united under
the banner of the Jericho Forum, want to retire this stalwart
because they say it hinders e-commerce.

Countering the forum's argument, however, is an equally emphatic
collection of analysts, corporate security managers and, not
surprisingly, firewall vendors.

"The perimeter going away? That's baloney," said John Pescatore,
a Gartner analyst alluding to the concept during his
presentation at the research firm's recent IT Security Summit on
the future of network security. "We think the security perimeter
that people put around their servers is even more critical
today. The perimeter cannot go away and does not get less
important in the future."

There's an underlying need that "the network must reward good
traffic and neutralize suspicious or unknown traffic," Pescatore
said. And that means "controlling the perimeter is ever more
important."

The Jericho Forum - the group's name refers to the Biblical
walls that miraculously came tumbling down at the sound of
trumpets - is on a mission to define a new security
architecture. The forum calls knocking down the old firewall, as
well as border proxies, a "de-perimeterization" process that can
be achieved within a matter of years. The mission of its seven
dozen members, which include Barclays Bank, Boeing and Eli
Lilly, is to make the IT industry aware that it needs a new
style of access control and data integrity product that pushes
control deep inside intranets.

The Jericho Forum's quest to remove the traditional perimeter
firewall and still maintain security strikes some as an
impossible mission.

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Ellen Messmer is Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications at
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