This blog has been authored by Frank Dickson, Program Vice President, Cybersecurity Products Practice, and Christopher Rodriguez, Research Director, IDC Network Security IDC recently had the opportunity to talk to CISOs regarding the integration of Cisco Secure Workload and Secure Firewall. As analysts, we can articulate the technical benefits. The realized benefits can be … [Read more...] about Integrating Perimeter and Internal Defenses: 5 Facts That May or May Not Surprise
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The death of the network perimeter and the firewall? Not so fast.
Welcome to The Future of Firewalling, Part 1… For over two decades, the firewall has been the de-facto tool that facilitated secure connectivity between different networks. Firewalls were traditionally designed around the idea that internal traffic and users were inherently trustworthy and external traffic wasn’t. Thus, the firewall was deployed to create a trust boundary – or … [Read more...] about The death of the network perimeter and the firewall? Not so fast.