Internet Secure Enough for Software as a Service?

Spring 2008, at the Check Point Experience event in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, Gil Shwed, CEO and founder of Check Point Software, noted that most of the Internet infrastructure, in large part comprising the twisted-pair phone networks of legacy telco carriers, was built around the turn of the 20th century and without enough security or scalability. This in regards to providing software as a service (SaaS) over the Internet.

"Many of the pipes today are not secure enough for SaaS," Shwed said. "The next generation of networks will be more on the SaaS model, with more scalability and better reconfiguration."

Shwed added that companies and their partners are much more interested in providing SaaS, and that network infrastructure is not the only thing that will have to change.

Source: Poor Infrastructure Holding Back Software Services, Iain Thomson, vnunet.com, April 15, 2008.