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Article: Are firewalls expendable? Jericho Forum looks to redefine security schemes.
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- Network World
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- July 4, 2005
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Byline: Ellen Messmer
The firewall's fate is up for debate.
For more than a decade, firewalls have stood guard at the perimeter of corporate networks to defend against the Internet's
perils. But a growing number of security managers, united under the banner of the Jericho Forum, want to retire this stalwart
because they say it hinders e-commerce.
Countering the forum's argument, however, is an equally emphatic collection of analysts, corporate security managers and,
not surprisingly, firewall vendors.