{"id":5871,"date":"2013-02-13T00:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/feb\/13\/firewalls-cloud-era-they-improve-cloud-and-cloud-improves-them\/"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:35:09","slug":"firewalls-in-the-cloud-era-they-improve-the-cloud-and-the-cloud-improves-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/firewalls-in-the-cloud-era-they-improve-the-cloud-and-the-cloud-improves-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Firewalls in the cloud era: They improve the cloud and the cloud improves them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firewalls will always be required as they are the sole devices that analyse and control communication of data and applications.<\/p>\n<p>Firewall technology ensures networks are running the way we want them to.&nbsp; As a result I came to the conclusion that the question is not &lsquo;will on-premise firewalls disappear&rsquo;, but &lsquo;how will firewalls be influenced by cloud technologies?&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>In order to address this we have to look at some of the history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enter Unified Threat Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10 years ago the first perimeter architectures consisted of a fast packet processor (the firewall) and a battery of content scanning servers.&nbsp; Each server was dedicated to a specific task (a duty) such as locating spyware or virus scanning.&nbsp; Each was from a different vendor and each was managed separately &ndash; it was genuinely best of breed and from a pure performance perspective it was ideal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However this design is a complicated multi-component perimeter infrastructure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firewalls will always be required as they are the sole devices that analyse and control communication of data and applications.<br \/>\nFirewall technology ensures networks are running the way we want them to.&nbsp; As a result I came to the conclusion that th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}