I never thought I would see the day that the firewall would have outlived its useful life. However, with the advent of WS-Security, which includes functionality for confidentiality, authentication, and integrity, the firewall may be an endangered technology. 1 Witness the fact that I am now hearing security professionals within large corporations actually talking about the possibility of doing away with firewalls.
Executive Update
Reinventing Enterprise-Wide Security: Dispatches from an Embedded Journalist at the Edge of SOA -- Part I
By Frank Teti
Posted February 14, 2008 | Technology |
About The Author
Frank Teti is a Senior Architect/Manager at TMNA Services. Previously, Mr. Teti was a Senior BPM Architect with Pegasystems and in the SOA practice at Oracle (formerly with BEA Systems). He can be reached at frank.teti at tmnas.com.
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