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Our perimeter is secure because I have got a firewall...

2007-01-07 01:25:18 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...firewall. This is akin to saying that my house is secure because I have purchased a lock. As an example of the right security mindset, deploying firewall should address the following concerns 0. Have you picked the right firewall vendor 1. How is the firewall configured 2. How does it fit into the overall security framework 3. How is the...
 
Tags: firewall, security product implementation, security product, security, security products, security framework, address, address security, security addresses concerns
 
 
 
 
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The Network Firewall is a Consensual Hallucination

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2008-07-18 11:04:34 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...firewall or outside the firewall. When a transaction is "inside the firewall" they can do silly things like load all their transaction on to something like MQ Series with no authentication, send it to the mainframe which runs their entire book of business, and in essence run their transactional backbone on anonymous ftp. Because its "inside...
 
Tags: firewall, business, security, security model, business units, inside, enterprisey folks, security architecture, business processes
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare Firewall and Software

2008-01-10 07:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...firewall If your software is signed with a code signing cert issued by an authority that is trusted on the machine (e.g., Thawte, Verisign, etc.) you're good, because the firewall will automatically allow your software to access the Internet. But if you don't want to shell out the hundreds of $$$ it takes to get one of these certs, especially...
 
Tags: firewall, onecare firewall, software, outbound firewall, firewall outputs, windows live onecare, homebrew software, people, highly technical people
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewall for the purpose of reducing the number of firewalls within their infrastructure? Wouldn't this be the same as reducing the number of physical servers within your infrastructure Ah, but surely this has been done before?? Cosine had a Virtual Firewall years ago where you could run multiple instances of a Firewall within a single...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewall for the purpose of reducing the number of firewalls within their infrastructure? Wouldn't this be the same as reducing the number of physical servers within your infrastructure Ah, but surely this has been done before?? Cosine had a Virtual Firewall years ago where you could run multiple instances of a Firewall within a single...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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Using Perl, Postgres and SQL to build a Comprehensive, Searchable Database of Firewall Activity on a Checkpoint firewall on the Cheap

2007-12-23 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
The purpose of this paper, written by Thomas Munn, is to help instruct the reader in how to use Postgres and Perl to have a queryable database using checkpoint Firewall log files
 
Tags: perl, thomas munn, queryable database, postgres, reader, instruct, purpose, paper
 
 
 
 
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Is Your Firewall a High Risk Entity

2008-08-15 15:15:57 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Firewall-an assertion backed up by the non-measurement Risk Score. The lowest risk scores were shared by a nameless Web Application and an entity called Oracle App My friend, Im going to give you a hint. If your firewall is high risk and your actual business applications are low risk - you might be doing it wrong
 
Tags: risk, non-measurement risk score, low risk, risk entities, firewall, risk scores, checkpoint firewall-an assertion, entity, actual business applications
 
 
 
 
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Security World: Trend adds Intrusion Defense Firewall to OfficeScan

2007-12-17 22:44:10 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
The new Trend Micro Intrusion Defense Firewall plug-in for OfficeScan 8.0 brings network-level Host Intrusion Prevention System capabilities to the endpoint. With IDF, malicious network communication
 
Tags: malicious network communication, officescan, idf, endpoint
 
 
 
 
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Off the wire: Using leak tests to evaluate firewall effectiveness

2007-12-28 00:15:18 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
A firewall provides security which is additional to that provided by other security solutions and appliances
 
Tags: security solutions, security, firewall, additional, appliances