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BANGALORE, INDIA: Firewalls and security software products are a must for enterprises to help them deal with the deluge of attacks from spammers, hackers and viruses.
However, deploying firewalls and other security software products in enterprises, will soon be thing of past, forecasts Chandra Kopparapu, vice-president sales, Asia Pacific, Foundry Networks. "If I need a firewall and a switch, why do I need separate boxes for them? Why can't someone make a single box that has both?" asks Kopparapu. Drawing an analogy with a one-arm router, Kopparapu says that companies in past made a lot of money and a lot of products around a one-arm router. "But not anymore. The same thing will happen with firewalls", contends Kopparapu. In an interaction with Idhries Ahmad of CIOL, Kopparapu explains the trends in network security domain, and how organizations can consistently foresee a security threat and come up with a solution to tackle that. Kopparapu also has a word or two for CIO's to deal with serious security threat posed by insiders rather than external hackers to organization's assets. Excerpts: CIOL: One of the biggest problems for enterprise is how to foresee a threat and come up with a solution? How can an enterprise be able to do that consistently? Chandra Kopparapu: In order to solve this problem, you need to know what you don't know -- this means research, investment, proper due diligence and time-and-effort. There are thousands of security products and solutions out there. Thousands more are waiting to be invented. Keeping up with and understanding all of them takes a lot of work. Determining which solutions are important to your network and which are not, also takes a lot of work. Every network is different with different security needs and different security priorities, and this is the reality enterprises face.
