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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firewalls



On Wednesday 13 August 2003 08:18 pm, morning_wood wrote:

> re - Zone Alarm
>
>  buy a $40 hardware router. Software firewalls are not a =
> security solution IMHO."
>
> http://www.netsys.com/full-disclosure/2003/06/msg00074.html
>

No...
But they ARE a part of a 'defense in depth' stance.  I don't want the 
elastic/evaporating perimeter to be the only thing in front of a chewy 
center.  All machines should be hardened and defended - regardless.

I got working IPChains, pf/ipf and Tiny , on every workstation.  I have a big 
FW at the edges, which in turn screens different service nets - each walled 
by protocol from my server and user segments. 

I bet you don' do it much different.

I am built the same at home...

-- 
Jeremiah Cornelius, CISSP, CCNA, MCSE
farm9 Security
email: jc@farm9.com - mobile: 415.235.7689

"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half 
hour?"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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