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Story: The future of IT security is fewer walls, not more

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Posted by: Fulton Wilcox (Wednesday 13 April 2005, 12:53 PM)

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What is critical is achieving node-level security and defense in depth. There is also an important workflow component, because "authorized" users otherwise can do "unauthorized" things. However, even without security threats many companies would need to keep their firewalls in place because their internal IP address structure might not be "street legal."

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