Growing attack surfaces require new security model | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Patrick Lambert describes the intelligence-based security model — a response to new attack surfaces that don’t fit into the standard perim

 

 There needs to be a much higher degree of cooperation in the industry, between security professionals, management, and IT. In an era of openness and connectivity, more focus needs to be put on quick detection and response, instead of relying on aging technologies.

 

At the end of the day, it won’t be the organization with the most hardened firewall that will succeed in keeping online threats out, but those with the highest degree of awareness and understanding.

 

An ecosystem of governments, vendors and corporations needs to cooperate and grow in order to counter organized crime. Only then will network security start on the path it needs to go in order to fight ever changing threat models.