Robert Whiteley and Natalie Lambert have seen the future--and in it, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2180379,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">traditional network security is dead.</A> At least that is the message the two Forrester Research analysts delivered to a crowd at the Forrester Security Forum in Atlanta.

According to them, in the next five years the Internet will be the primary connectivity method for businesses, replacing their private network infrastructure as the number of mobile workers, contractors and other third-party users continues to grow. In this new world, which Whiteley and Lambert called "Internet Everywhere," corporations will have to redefine network security and focus on data encryption, managing risk at the endpoint and having strict data access controls, they said.