Monday at Gartner Symposium in Florida, Carol Rozwell, of Gartner gave some wise words:
“Banning access to social media from the corporate network is futile.”
Carol is correct, we can’t stop social networking, you only have to look at the largest firewall installed, China! They have failed to manage the flow of incoming information via Web 2.0 sites. Today’s world we live in is digitally enabled and socially connected. Moreover, the enterprise cannot protect its self from everything, they must learn to balance risk and performance, cloud and software as a service has great value, but they will introduce a change in how technology is managed and controlled. Web 2.0, SaaS and Internet based social networking applications to carry real threats to corporations and must be managed effectively with today’s tools that understand these tools…
Filed under: Managed Security, social enterprise | Tagged: Firewall, P2P, SaaS, social networking, Twitter, web 2.0
There was once great china wall – visible even from the Moon. Now they invented Great China Firewall. But I discovered Skydur.com – it goes through the wall and I can access all my favorite sites again – youtube, twitter, facebook and hulu ! It’s just about $5 per month but if you signup for the whole year they offer 10% discount – http://www.skydur.com
Fortunately Varidion hosted firewalls are stronger and and read the traffic to proxies – even when encrypted. Thats why you need a Next Generation Firewall.