On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jim Miller wrote:
> Firewall:
> A penetration test was run on the firewall and it was reported that 3 ports were left open. I was privy only to the summary report, and was told that the open ports were really not a problem, as "they only appeared to an outsider to be open. They were truly secured.". After learning more, I found a respected source who agreed that open is open. The point being that this certificate schema is only as strong as the firewall. It's a Cisco PIX Firewall Router, and I'm told not to worry, "It's an industry standard.". What is your opinion?
I'm not conviced that PIX is an industry standard at all. (But I admit I'm
not fully objective.)
As far as I could tell from some personal tests the PIX product isn't easy
to operate. I personaly work with FireWall-1 but have tested some other
firewalls as well but the combination of ease-of-use and security wasn't
matched yet by any other product.
But I think the whole discussion is rather hypothetical. It seems some
people made up their mind and decided you can trust Bill because he has a
lot of money so he must be right.
Hugo.
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Received on Nov 01 2000
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