Over 90% of European security professionals believe
networks will be deperimeterised in five
years’ time.
A survey of 80 security professionals at the
Jericho Forum Conference at this week’s
InfoSecurity show in London found
strong support for deperimeterisation.
Deperimeterised networks see firms harden the protection around
individual nodes or groups of nodes on a network.
They then tailor the protection to the specific needs of the
users and data traffic going over that part of the network, instead
of relying on increasingly insecure general network defences that
surround the whole organisation.
Qualys said the survey, in partnership with Jericho, showed that
European professionals are ahead of their US counterparts in
relation to deperimeterisation. A similar survey in the US revealed
that firms there would still rely on hardened perimeter network
defences in five years’ time.
Paul Simmonds, Global CISO for ICI and Jericho Forum board
member, said, “European organisations have clearly grasped the fact
that deperimeterisation will happen in the next five years. It’s
clear that Europeans are far better prepared to address future
security business needs than their US colleagues, and are preparing
to embrace a perimeter-less future.”
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