Centrally Managed Network Security: Hope or Reality? Don't wait for the standards to evolve

摘要

Ask any IT professional to predict the future of computer networking and you will get different answers. Guessing the future of technology has always been a dicey business at best. Planning ahead for the next set of security threats and building security solutions that are not vulnerable to these threats is even more difficult, because building network technology is, on the face of it a purposeful design process, whereas security threats are typically exploitations of sloppy engineering or cleverly threading together unintended uses for software. Future security threats and vulnerabilities are not something that is easy or even possible to anticipate.