Skyport Systems – Moving the edge
The traditional security model has put significant emphasis on what’s typically called the ‘external edge’. That is, the connection between your network and any third party network. This is also where we create a delineation between ‘trusted’ and ‘untrusted’ networks. Regardless of how you define this boundary, it becomes the focal point for any security related tooling. This creates some interesting challenges…
Scale – Applying security tooling at the external edge introduces some possible scale concerns. You now have a single point in the network has to scale to provide connectivity and security services to all of the users and applications. While this might make sense in smaller networks, aggregating everything in one place on larger networks can be challenging. Considering that many security tools can handle significantly lower amounts of traffic than routers and switches, you may find that doing this all in one place introduces a bottleneck in the network. Scaling security appliances is often a much larger task than scaling network links.
Network magic – I often joke that network engineers have to perform network magic to get all of the security tools all of the traffic they Continue reading
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