firewall-wizards Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: DISA eliminating firewalls (kent)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:46:22 -0700
From: kent <kent@songbird.com>
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] DISA eliminating firewalls
To: firewall-wizards@listserv.cybertrust.com
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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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