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Microsoft's new vision for security
By Jerome Saiz, Mon, October 15th, 2007
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Microsoft will unveil its new security roadmap during the RSA Conference Europe 2007, in London, UK. Say goodbye to perimeter security.
This might be just a plan, but Microsoft's new security paradigm to be announced in the next RSA Conference Europe in London (October 22-24) is rather ambitious : the giant wants to get rid of the perimeter. It envision instead a network of autonomous clients linked by IPsec tunnels from end-to-end, thanks to fulll IP v6 networks.
Of course, everybody and his dog has been devising about the death of perimeter-based security for years, but so far nothing as drastic has been proposed. We'll be sure to attends Microsoft's presentation in London and tell you more about this (choose one) foolish or brilliant idea.
Our comments :
Microsoft would like to believe that companies will migrate to full IPv6 networks and do away with their current architectures while they are still debating the move toward Windows Vista. The vision may thus stay a vision for quite a bit, but still, it's worth discussing.
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