North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
Gerardo Gregory writes on 11/24/2003 4:20 PM: NAT is not a security feature, neither does it provide any real security, just one to one translations. PAT fall into the sameIt is not a cure all and I never said it was one. It cuts the risk down a little, is all. Most broadband providers still perform a NAT translation downstream, is it helping alleviate any of the attacks/compromises? NOT!!!!!A lot of it is because of infected hosts in a subnet searching around for open windows shares on IPs around it. I know Microsoft has a product that allows you to donwload patches to a centralized server (within your infrastructure) and let's you patch your internal systems from it. Heard our MS admins talking about it a while back.... Sounds like a good thing to have around. -- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations
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