The current situation is very similar to the dawn of the Internet. In the beginning, organizations had to be educated on what a firewall was, and why it was a good idea to protect assets from the Internet. Today, no one even considers connecting an organization to the Internet without a firewall. In ten years firewalls have gone from a concept for researchers to a practical requirement understood by the average Internet user. Similarly, the concept of a distributed firewall on every host is a new concept that has not caught on. Ten years from now, no one will consider connecting a computer to a network without a distributed firewall to protect it.




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