The name on this great article from the NY Times just caught my attention this morning... “
What’s interesting in this article is the research done by Palo Alto Networks. Most employees are still able to bypass security firewalls and access file-sharing applications like eMule and BitTorrent. The current firewalls put into place are not effective enough to stop this from happening.
So what’s the answer for this? No it’s not a complete crackdown on all internet applications, but a better monitoring system where organizations can filter out specific characteristics of applications that they do not want employees to have access to. I’m talking about a new breed and approach to firewalls. After all, we don’t want to block out enterprise 2.0 applications; it’s a great tool for collaboration and innovation. Companies want to be able to use these apps without fear of a security meltdown.
As security becomes a growing concern for organizations, we will see an abundance of new security firewalls being put into place.
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We already have Web 2.0 ready firewall/security appliance.
We do Layer 7 filtering, blocking of all downloads unless from an acceptable (read whitelisted) source, we do javascript filtering (no cryptic iframes get through us even encoded). We feel that if it walks like a duck, it is a duck.
We prevent users from hurting themselves.
We also filter XSS in the URL quite effectively.
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