He did say he was an Architect == PHB? ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth E. Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:57 PM
To: Alex Hewitt USG
Cc: Greg Kettmann; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A story and some advice.
I don't know about that..... I seem to remember a certain ADSL company
saying that their ADSL routers were impervious to penetration. Until
about two weeks ago, that is ;-) Besides, why spend the money when it
can all be done for free, and an added advantage is that you can learn a
little bit about security at the same time. This way, the next time he
designs a system, he can design a secure one ;-) Oh, and on top of that,
it doesn't take that long to review logs. Use something like logcheck
and have the program e-mail the logs to you every hour or so. It takes
two minutes to scan the e-mail for problem areas. Yes, hardening a
system is an on-going process, but it is one that you learn from. What
more can you ask for? You do the work, and the instant reward is
education. Unless you're management, education is always a good thing
;-)
C-Ya,
Kenny
Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
>
> Greg, the best advice that you will get from me and others who frequent
this
> group is to invest in a firewall/router box. I use the LinkSys BEFSR41
which has
> 4 10/100 ports but there are several other manufacturers of these devices.
They
> cost around $150 or so but allow you to share up to 4 systems on your
> cable-modem connection and as far as I know are impervious to
hackers/script
> kiddies. Well worth the piece of mind!
>
> -Alex
>
> P.S. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, I think you will find
that
> hardening a system is an on-going chore that you probably don't have the
time
> for. Just reading the logs would be time consuming.
>
> Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
>
> "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
> said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
>
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