Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, 2009

ID Number: G00169194

28 July 2009

Greg Young Vic Wheatman Joseph Feiman Neil MacDonald Adam Hils Jeffrey Wheatman Peter Firstbrook John Pescatore John Girard Kelly M. Kavanagh Lawrence Orans Mark Nicolett Arabella Hallawell L. Frank Kenney Ray Wagner David Norton

Advances in infrastructure protection technology continue to be primarily reactive to keep pace with new threats. Integration of point safeguards into platforms continues, and "in the cloud" protection delivers more hype than protection in many, but not all, areas.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

Off the Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		Software Composition Analysis
		Application Inspection

At the Peak

		Penetration Testing Tools
		"In the Cloud" Security Services
		Security in the Switch

Sliding Into the Trough

		Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)
		Open-Source Security Tools
		SMB Multifunction Firewall
		Endpoint Deep Packet Inspection
		Application Control
		Mobile Data Protection
		Data Masking
		Static Application Security Testing
		HIPS on PCs
		Network Access Control
		Network IDS
		Endpoint Protection Platform

Climbing the Slope

		Network Security Silicon
		Next-Generation Firewalls
		Secure Web Gateways
		WLAN IPS
		XML Firewalls
		Dynamic Application Security Testing
		Network IPS
		Web Application Firewalls
		E-Mail Security Boundary
		DDoS Defense

Entering the Plateau

		HIPS on Servers
		Stateful Firewalls

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, 2009

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Infrastructure Protection, 2009

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, 2008

Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, 2009
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