Employees, content and the elusive firewall

4th Apr 2007

The way we use IT to communicate has
change massively in 15 years

Early 90s
FTP

Outbound Email

Corporate IT Firewall
Inbound Email

Web surfing

Web mail

IM

Web 2 – blogs, wikis, RSS

2007

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The places businesses allow and want their
users to access IT has also changed

Early 90s

Where is the firewall now?

On-premise

Off-premise
Home

Mobile

Ultra mobile 2007

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The type of content IT departments have to
worry about has also changed

Early 90s Corporate content Malware

viruses

Corporate IT Firewall
worms

spyware

Junk email

adware

2007
Phishing

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The type of vendors who help us control the
movement of content has changed in response

On-premise software
3 main form factors

Gateway
appliances

On-demand “in
the cloud”

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The vendorscape is changing

Early 90s

Niche product/solution vendors with one form factor

Vendors that solve multiple issues, some using

multiple form factors

Content security is becoming part of the IT

infrastructure mainstream

2007

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Summary

• Today there is no need for different vendors to solve

each content security problem
• There is increasing protection being built into
mainstream IT infrastructure – some of this will be
sufficient for some organisations
• For many this level of protection will not be enough and
they should continue to turn to content security
specialists
• Increasingly these specialists provide protection against
multiple threats, some with multiple form factors

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