Integrated Security: A New Network Approach
Part Two: The Shift Toward Integration
Eric Winsborrow - December 10, 2002

The Shift Toward Integration

According to Computer Economics, the worldwide financial impact of malicious code was $13.2 Billion in 2001 alone. With nearly 400 computer security vendors offering solutions spanning the spectrum from antivirus to firewalls, content filtering to intrusion detection, we’re led to ask, "Why?" The problem lies in the old world strategy of "one threat, one cure." Companies finding themselves marauded by the onslaught of attacks have simply added more single-cure security point product after another, and dealt with the cost and difficulties of trying to manage them with limited resources, finding out in the end that their security posture was marginally improved (if not ultimately decreased due to the complexity). It’s outdated. The blended threats Code Red and Nimda crushed that approach employing new combinations of offenses against IT infrastructures...