Why firewalls is not part of the equation anymore
Aug 31st, 2008 by Jesper Kråkhede
I had a very interesting and partly agitated discussion with a firewall vendor just recently regarding the future for firewalls when looking at security. From his point of view firewalls was the ultimate in security tools with increasingly better protection every year. Even if I understand his argument my argument was more regarding the needs for interaction with the surrounding environment making the firewalls be more like a punch card then the protection they are meant to be.
From a Jericho perspective the firewall is only part of the sanitation in security. You still need it, if not for your security, then at least for keeping the script kiddies at bay. The determined attacker would not be stopped by the firewalls. Against him/her there is a need for other protection.
So I concluded the discussion that firewalls is a sanitation object as is virus protection and that the future for security lies in a Jericho implementation of security.