Monday, June 25, 2007

Firewalls gain strength

Sometimes in IT, the best defense is a good defense moved further up the network stack. At least that is what some vendors and analysts are predicting about the next generation of network firewalls.

Vendors are increasingly looking to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2150095,00.asp?kc=EWKNLEDP062507D">integrate IPS (intrusion prevention systems) with firewalls,</A> but truly integrated, full-featured products are in short supply, said Gartner analyst Greg Young. He cited research by his firm stating that threats have become more complex and moved higher in the network stack, forcing firewalls to move beyond just providing stateful protocol analysis to having increasingly rich management and configuration tools.

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