Information security has changed a lot over the years. Way back in the dinosaur days, life was simple. Companies set up a firewall at the border and life was good. Bad guys stayed on one side of the fancy flashing box, and our personnel lived in the pristine, attacker-free paradise on the inside. Well, that’s how it was supposed to work, at least. Over the years, the model changed. Increasingly porous borders and multiple entry points into the environment have left us in the state where the perimeter is largely irrelevant, or rapidly becoming so.
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Isolated Systems Need Love Too
Posted by: Ed Moyle May 22, 2012 05:00 AMInformation security has changed a lot over the years. Way back in the dinosaur days, life was simple. Companies set up a firewall at the border and life was good. Bad guys stayed on one side of the fancy flashing box, and our personnel lived in the pristine, attacker-free paradise on the inside. Well, that’s how it was supposed to work, at least. Over the years, the model changed. Increasingly porous borders and multiple entry points into the environment have left us in the state where the perimeter is largely irrelevant, or rapidly becoming so.