Peter Bergen: The old network security modelperimeter defense was a lot like the old physical security model. He says it’s critical to understand the shortcomings of the castle-and-moat model. It makes more sense to stop attackers with hardened outer defenses than to fight them with hand-to-hand combat. Bergen says the Jericho Forum is calling for companies to bring down their outside walls and rely on defenses built into hosts, applications and the data itself. But a perimeter-oriented defense makes little sense when you have more than 150,000 employees inside the firewall.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2119080/the-deperimeter-problem.html