Kevin McIsaac

META Trend: As networked storage (e.g., SAN, NAS) matures by 2004/05, larger and more sophisticated implementations will drive the need for storage applications to become application and DBMS aware, which will expose immature storage-related security procedures.

As IT organizations attempt to drive down the total cost of e-business infrastructure ownership by sharing it across different security zones of the data center, they must first evaluate the impact this has on firewall security policy. Inappropriate sharing will reduce firewall resilience and compromise mission-critical applications' security.