防火墙：在大门（侧边栏）的野蛮人

随着安全性变得越来越重要的，许多制造商已经创建了安全团队，负责保护信息和防止攻击。这是最近的一个发展，表明系统攻击的财务危险危险制造商的认识增加。“五年前，安全团队不存在。他们今天做的，“基于Cisco Systems Inc.的San Jose的安全高级总监Jeff Platon说：”安全团队建立了一个规则并将其推向IT（信息技术）运营团队部署;然后他们在后端监控它。“

根据普拉登,越来越多的基本rers, such as General Motors, have decided that IT is actually a core competence, which means information management has been elevated from a mere utility to precious competitive knowledge. In response to the growing importance of security, some companies have taken the responsibility of security from the network builders and created security teams that exist independently of the IT group. “As firewalls have become more and more mature, they’ve blurred the line between a network organization and a security organization,” says Chris Calvert, manager of security intelligence at IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y. “Responsibility is divided up between network and security.”

制造商还在每个潜在的软点投掷防火墙，从而造成了塞子和针迹的不可理解的拼凑而成。“我无法将没有整个防火墙的公司形象，”电子数据系统公司的安全和隐私服务执行副总裁Al Decker说。有时努力失去控制。“一个大型国际组织雇用了4,000名防火墙。德克尔说，我们把它带到了1,500岁。““可能似乎有4,000个防火墙是最终的保护，但没有策略，你不知道什么是不受保护的。”

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