Jody Brazil, Co Founder and Chief Product Strategy Officer, FireMon Jody Brazil, Co Founder and Chief Product Strategy Officer, FireMon, Jody Brazil Jody Brazil is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than two decades of executive management experience and deep domain expertise in all a... More >> The traditional firewall has been an important part of the network infrastructure practically since the beginning of the internet. While some have claimed the death of the firewall, results from ‘FireMon’s 2016 State of the Firewall Report,’ based on a recent survey of about 600 IT security practitioners, show that this isn’t the case at all. The truth is, the firewall still plays an important role in today’s security architecture, but it will have to evolve to meet the demands of the changing security and IT landscape.