A new FireMon report, based on a survey of over 700 network security practitioners, reveals that
firewalls remain highly strategic to organizations' current and future security strategies – with an overwhelming 92 percent of respondents indicating that firewalls will stand as a “critical” component of their security infrastructures for the foreseeable future.
This prevailing view is not without challenges as the study also found significant, persistent and widespread management issues, most notably related to firewall policy complexity.
