10 NEXT-GENERATION SECURITY: MANAGING THE HUMAN FACTOR

Terry Greer-King, UK Managing Director at Check Point, shows what next-generation security really means and why it is critical that organisations understand user and application activity in order to fully protect their networks.

The firewall is now over 20 years old. That’s quite an achievement, considering that some security industry observers have been predicting its demise for over half of that time. Evolving IT infrastructures and increasingly sophisticated security threats have brought repeated warnings about the firewall’s impending obsolescence. This started in the late 1990s, when laptop usage and remote access started to spread in the corporate environment and people began talking ...

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