Firewall Flaws And How To Fix Them

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Firewall Flaws and How to Fix Them

Ross O. Storey, CIO Asia

"While the application and threat landscape has been evolving, firewalls have changed very little over the last 15 years, according to enterprise network firm Palo Alto Networks.

The firm, soon to launch a new product in Singapore, has warned that supplementing firewalls with proxies, prevention systems, URL filtering and other costly and complex devices is "ineffective in today's application and threat landscape".

In a recent a study of 900,000 users, Palo Alto found that 100 per cent of the organisations surveyed had firewalls and 87 per cent also had one or more firewall helpers (for example, a proxy, an IPS, URL filtering)--yet they were unable to exercise control over the application traffic traversing the network."

Read more at PCWorld - http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...o_fix_them.html

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