Defense-in-Depth: New Kinds of Tools for All the Layers

The principle of defense-in-depth remains a key design element for enterprise organizations. Although many have said that perimeters are going away, or identity is the new perimeter, the fact is that almost all enterprises still have perimeters. The names may have changed, and components may be declared “next-gen”, but there are still firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention systems, etc. We will look at how new kinds of tools have become available to help protect against attacks from the application to the network layers.