posted by: Danelle on February 21, 2012 5:49 AM
filed in: Data Center
tagged: data center, data center summit, ethernet fabric, network segmentation, zero trust
A QA on Zero Trust
I mentioned in my last blog that we’re kicking off a Data Center Summit starting in Dallas, Texas today. One of the special guests at our seminar will be John Kindervag from Forrester Research, presenting on the Zero Trust Model. If you haven’t yet heard of Zero Trust, check out the video here.
With the current state of security attacks on organizations, this new security model, called “Zero Trust” recommends that enterprise take a new architectural approach to securing their networks. Kindervag’s model recommends trusting no one (not even internal users), ensuring secure access to all resources, and inspecting and logging all traffic among other things. He also introduces what he calls a network segmentation gateway or a “firewall on steroids” that does firewall, IPS, content filtering and encryption without a performance impact.
There has been lots written up on this Zero Trust model, but we really wanted to drill down on the actual implementation of the Zero Trust model, in particular in the data center. We spoke with John Kindervag, security analyst at Forrester to get his perspective:
posted by: Danelle on February 3, 2012 9:48 AM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: application visibility, data center, data center summit, zero trust
How Secure Is Your Data Center?
I feel sorry for security IT admins these days. The enterprise network used to be relatively easy to protect; crunchy on the outside, chewy and soft in the middle. Protect the perimeters, and you were safe. Now that boundaries have disappeared, threats have evolved, and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has become a reality, where should enterprises focus their security efforts?
I say the data center. Of course I subscribe to the notion of defense-in-depth, but if there is one place security should never be neglected, it’s where all your important servers and data reside.
