Every defense paradigm has a finite life span and the IT industry's prevention paradigm, which is based on perimeter technology designed to keep the bad guys out, is completely out of step with . It's time to move on to a new era: the "secure breach" era.

Think of this in terms of military defenses. Body armor, once the firewall of combat capable of defending against rocks and arrows, quickly became obsolete with the introduction of simple firearms. In World War II, aircraft carriers made battleships obsolete and today, stealth technology is making conventional radar obsolete. Offensive weapons are developed and perfected with the sole purpose of defeating the status quo defense.

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Breach prevention has been the status quo for years, and it is as helpless against today's new threats as armor was against firearms. People, however, are resistant to change. It is frightening to abandon the ways we've always done things, even when moving on is obviously the right thing to do.