Employees, content and the elusive firewall
4th Apr 2007
The way we use IT to communicate has change massively in 15 years Early 90s
Corporate IT Firewall
FTP Outbound Email Inbound Email Web surfing Web mail IM Web 2 – blogs, wikis, RSS
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The places businesses allow and want their users to access IT has also changed
Where is the firewall now?
Early 90s
On-premise
Home
Off-premise
Mobile
Ultra mobile
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Employees, content and the elusive firewall
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The type of content IT departments have to worry about has also changed
Early 90s
Corporate IT Firewall
Corporate content
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Malware viruses
worms spyware
Junk email adware Phishing Copyright 2007 Quocirca Ltd
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”
Employees, content and the elusive firewall
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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
Employees, content and the elusive firewall
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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
Employees, content and the elusive firewall
Copyright 2007 Quocirca Ltd