Frustration of the security community
Oct 10th, 2015 by Jesper Kråkhede
For the one that only has a hammer all problems looks like nails. I have met many skilled security experts during my years and count quite a few of them as my friends. Sadly, I have also met quite a number of so called senior security experts that struggles to solve security problems with only a few tools that they refuses to change.
I fully appreciate the use of a firewall on the network and that it needs to be properly configured. I cannot however approve of implementing a firewall on the network as the solution to manage security in the mobiles. That is, forcing the mobiles to only connect to the corporate network and then out in the world. It may be a way of securing the traffic but it makes the phone impossible to work with as soon as you are on a bit slower network.
Security is always a challenge but the biggest challenge is not to be able to secure something, anyone could do that, but to provide the right level of security for what you are trying to protect.