NetworkWorld - Open Source Fact and Fiction: Firewalls: The security tool we love to hate

Can't live with them, can't live without 'em.

By Alan Shimel
03/06/13

If someone says "firewall," what do you think of first? For many in the security industry and IT in general, we think "are they still around, do we still use them?" But the fact a recent study by Wendy Nather of 451 Group found that if you asked Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to name their top three technology solutions they would implement in a green-field situation, firewalls and anti-virus still make the list. As much as people say AV and firewalls are useless, we still all use them. As Tufin Technologies CEO Ruvi Ktov told me, "Firewalls are the security tool we love to hate".

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