[WEB SECURITY] Query: Are Firewalls obsolete in an Enterprise Web Service Environment?

Kurt Grutzmacher grutz at jingojango.net
Tue Mar 25 16:14:58 EDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Nathanael Hoyle <nhoyle at hoyletech.com>
wrote:

> william fitzgerald wrote:
> > Dear Web Application Experts,
> >
> > Are Firewalls (Network Access Controls) obsolete in regard to Enterprise
> >  Web Service Environments?
> >
>

To turn this into a car analogy (and why would we not?) -- would you stop
wearing a seat belt because your car has an airbag?

Just because you've added another protection layer doesn't make existing
methods obsolete.
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