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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: management interface accessability (was Re: Worm / UDP1434)
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 [email protected] wrote: > > > > their computers on 24x7. They may be infected, and will fire up their > > > VPN tunnels Monday morning. This may introduce the worm into the chewy > > > center of many corporate networks. Hopefully folks have put the proper > > > filters in place on their VPN access points. > > > > Wait, but isn't your corporate network 'secure' cause its got a super kewl > > firewall infront of it?? > > The problem is not firewall. The firewall is a tool to implement a security > policy. If the security policy is wrong, a firewall wont help you. In fact, > the best demonstration of a firewall is a Cat5 cable. Working cable is a > firewall with Allow:Any security policy. Cut in two, the cable is a firewall > implementing Allow:None security policy. I forgot my smilies in the original post... it was a joke... I'll try not to do that again.
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