Symantec CEO Enrique Salem speaking with the media at the Vision 2010 conference
Sounds like a revolution… at least to me, having covered IT security for only 15 years!
At Symantec’s Vision 2010 in Las Vegas, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has a big news for the 2,500 IT managers attending the conference: firewalls are dead!
“There are really 2 concepts that matter to security. It’s users or identities and the information that you are trying to protect… So the firewall that used to be just ‘how do I keep things for coming in’ is not the right answer. Because I need people to integrate with me. I need people to leverage the information. So the right concept is: find the information that matters and make sure it’s secure,” confided Enrique Salem, the CEO of Symantec during a media roundtable at the show.
The head of the largest security software vendor went as far as to say that he doesn’t believe in screening everything, because only a very small portion of the data is worth protecting or even saving.
To which Greg Hughes, Symantec’s President of the Enterprise product group i.e. 2/3 of the company’s revenues, added:
“I think it’s a good way to think about it: protecting and creating that periphery, is sort of an outmoded concept. You’ve got to protect the information. And I think that’s where we’re really distinctive.”
Now you have it. But are you ready to turn off your firewall?
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