Is it time to rethink legacy firewalls? Q&A
A new report from Guardicore and the Ponemon Institute reveals that more than 60 percent of organizations believe that legacy firewalls are ineffective in preventing damaging cyberattacks against applications, data centers, and data in the cloud. We spoke to Dave Burton, VP marketing at Guardicore to find out more. BN: The report refers to ‘legacy firewalls’ and their limitations in securing moder
n enterprise environments – what constitutes a legacy firewall? DB: For this report, Ponemon defined legacy firewalls as both stateful and next-generation firewall (NGFW) appliances, which includes virtual firewall appliances. Stateful firewalls provide inspection of incoming and outgoing network [Continue Reading]
Author: Ian Barker
Date: 2020-11-20
URL: https://betanews.com/2020/11/20/rethink-legacy-firewalls-qa/
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