Re: Firewall and DMZ topology

["Daniel B. Cid" <danielcid () yahoo com br>]

I think similar to you. In most companies all the firewalls are the
same(same OS, same version and same configuration).. If someone is
able to crack the firewall 1, will be able to crack the firewall 2 and 3
..

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Daniel B. Cid

> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:41, Zach Crowell wrote:
>
>
> Erik Vincent wrote:
> > I think there is a major difference between:
> >
> >               1:    internet --> Outer Firewall --> DMZ --> Inner 
> > Firewall --> LAN
> >                            If your Outer Firewall is crack, only the DMZ 
> > computer will be unprotected
> >                             but the LAN portion still protected.
>
> Under what conditions would these firewalls be configured any 
> differently from a vulnerability-assessment view point?  i.e., if 
> someone was able to crack the outer firewall, is it not likely they 
> would crack the inner firewall as well?
>
> Zach
>
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