The old port-blocking firewalls have not really changed in 15 years and really are no longer effective in protecting the corporate perimeter.  That’s because they were not designed to control all of the evasive, port-hopping, or encrypted Internet applications, content and threats that are common in today’s networks.  People have tried to compensate for the firewall’s deficiencies by adding IDS, IPS, Network AV, URL filtering, etc.  However, adding all of these other solutions just causes “box-creep” and takes up precious rack space.

It’s Time to Fix the Firewall!!!

In my next few posts I am going to discuss how we got to where we are today and why we need to fix the firewall.  The bottom line is the firewall has been and still should be the most important security device in your network.  However, making sure it protects today’s applications and networks is extremely important, not to mention being able to keep up with today’s high bandwidth rates.

Stay tuned as we explore the Past, Present and Future of the firewall.

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