Re: Firewalls/Internet Security - TNG

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr net>]

Edward Cracknell writes:
> So, firewall development is slowing/stopped. Intrusion detection is the
> future.....then where?

Where next? I think that for security products to succeed, and for
network/system management products to succeed, the two must
become one. System and network management are already huge
markets -- sooner or later one of two things will happen:
        -> heterogenous products for system/network management
                will appear, and will incorporate security as a component
        -> heterogenous networks will disappear and be replaced
                with networks all running products from Microsoft and
                Microsoft will 'fix' security when they get around to it
                or it'll be a 3rd party add-on for Windows-2000

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