I spoke with Brandon Butler of Network World recently about the future of the firewall, and he put some of my comments in a great article titled, How hybrid cloud is hastening the demise of traditional firewall security. You should totally go and read it over at Network World, but to give you a taste …
It’s not a new notion, but one that is gaining adherents: Perimeter-based security options like firewalls and access controls just will not cut it for new technologies that expand beyond corporate networks.
“Identity is the new perimeter,” said Andi Mann, a vice president at CA Technologies, during a Google Hangout with other cloud experts sponsored by Datamation recently. “You can’t lock down by firewalls any more – you can’t even really lock down by application access anymore because you’re getting portions of an application from different services and different providers.”
See the original via How hybrid cloud is hastening the demise of traditional firewall security – Network World.