Private corporate networks obsolete?

By the end of the decade, private corporate networks will become obsolete relics of the early information age. And so will the security technologies and procedures that are used to protect them. Robert Whiteley and Natalie Lambert, both analysts with Forrester Research, believe that traditional security is gone and that as mobile networks and the Internet become the primary connectivity method for businesses, organizations will have to completely re-think how they secure key information assets.

CIOs and their IT security staff will have to shift the bulk of their focus away from perimeter-based strategies designed to keep bad things out, and will instead concentrate on things like data encryption, managing risk at the endpoint and having strict data access controls. In short, security professionals will have to assume that malware and security penetrations happen routinely and must plan accordingly.

To learn more about tomorrow's security woes:
- read the article in eWeek