Survey Uncovers High Level of Concern Over Firewalls

guest · Oct 27, 2020

Survey Uncovers High Level of Concern Over Firewalls
More than half of respondents are planning to reduce their network firewall footprint
October 27, 2020
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnera...evel-of-concern-over-firewalls/d/d-id/1339301

A relatively high percentage of cybersecurity leaders apparently perceive most firewall technologies — long a linchpin of enterprise security — as being ineffective in protecting their applications against attack.

The Ponemon Institute recently surveyed 603 US security professionals on their firewall use. The survey, sponsored by Guardicore, asked respondents to evaluate the effectiveness of firewalls in blocking ransomware and a range of other existing and emerging threats.
The survey encompassed both "stateful" firewalls that inspect incoming and outgoing network traffic and firewalls that integrate threat intelligence, intrusion prevention, application access control, and other features.
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The results reveal that organizations are highly unhappy with their current firewall technologies. More than half (53%) of the respondents say they're either moving away from or reducing their dependence on firewalls and looking at other options.

Six in 10 of the security leaders in the survey believe legacy firewalls don't have the capabilities to protect critical application and systems from attack. An identical 60% describe legacy firewalls as being of little help in enabling a zero-trust environment, and 76% say it took them too much time to secure new applications or to change configurations with their legacy firewalls.

"The biggest complaints we're hearing from organizations on legacy firewalls is that they kill speed and flexibility and are not providing the required needs around security," says Dave Burton, vice president of product marketing at Guardicore.
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"The inability to ensure proper segmentation of east-west traffic is a big reason why we're seeing companies reduce their firewall footprints," Burton says. "Less than half of all respondents trust their legacy firewalls to provide even adequate security for internal data center east-west traffic."
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alexandrud · Oct 28, 2020

mood said: ↑

Survey Uncovers High Level of Concern Over Firewalls
More than half of respondents are planning to reduce their network firewall footprint
October 27, 2020
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnera...evel-of-concern-over-firewalls/d/d-id/1339301
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I wouldn't trust them 100%. These numbers can be also invented. This is the kind of article that is mentioning something (Ponemon Institute ...the survey, sponsored by Guardicore) then, hey we have a solution, check out our software which does this and that.
Based on this: https://www.guardicore.com/lp/threat-intelligence-firewall/ they have some agents installed on devices which are reporting to a cloud server which then pushes the same block rules to all agents. Nothing innovative, many software security companies are using the same approach.

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