Divide and rule is the new way of working

By Jonathan Gossels on Aug 5, 2004 2:37 PM
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In a connected world, companies need to supplement the security perimeter with other technologies and techniques. Jonathan Gossels and Dick Mackey suggest that zoning could make a significant difference

Over the past ten years, technological change and evolving business models have made the very idea of an enterprise perimeter obsolete. VPN technology, the use of protocols (like http) that are allowed to pass through firewalls, and the extension of networks to encompass outside service providers and business partners, illustrate this point. Rather than thinking about "the perimeter", most organizations are better served by thinking in terms of zones of risk, or zones of trust. In a zone model, the primary concern is about information assets. Instead of attempting to design a system that ...
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