Microsoft's cool vision for the future of networking
I'm so impressed! I saw a slide deck today talking about the future of network security and I was pleased to see that we are sorting out our house of cards!
We are sewing the seeds for change, for improvement, and that starts with Windows Vista and Windows Server Codename "Longhorn".
What do I mean?
With the the enhancements available in Vista and Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" people can chose to have no more private networks! No more private LANs! No More perimeter Firewalls! Host based security! logical management boundries based on trust, based on system health, based on anything but some stupid perimeter firewall that still allows anything through Port 80 and they chose to do this over IPv6 or IPv4.
This is mostly centered around IPSec and its integration with Windows Firewall. Its new authentication options that can use Health Certificates, and more flexible management via group policy.
Does that mean the DoD or MoD are going to tear down their firewalls, replace them with routers and suddenly start allocating public IPs to all their internal machines at nuclear sites? I'm guessing not.
But it's a step in the right direction, innovative medium size and larger businesses will be able to realise the benefits of simplified network management, and most importantly, increased security. The sooner we can help communicate not only what this new solution does, but how badly broken the old way of doing things is - the better off we'll be as an industry!
More? Click > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/nap/napoverview.mspx
