Re: An eye opener for firewall lovers

[Steven Pierce]

Thank you. That was good. One of the questions that I have is the text in bold.  What kind of multiple lines of defense can someone use??  Does this mean more then one firewall or just many layers of security.??  The panel also recommended a number of additional steps for "hardening" firewalls, including use of strong authentication protocols, "anti-spoofing" mechanisms and highly restrictive access rules. At the same time, they called on the IT community to abandon the "single firewall" model of network security and implement multiple lines of defense. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/29/2000 at 8:54 PM Eessa Kamal wrote: I am sure the following article is appropriate for this forum... Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:52:47 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hackers breach Firewall-1 [Source: David Raikow, Sm@rt Partner, 2 Aug 2000 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2610719,00.html] An audience of several hundred network security professionals watched with rapt attention last week as a trio of hackers repeatedly penetrated one of the industry's most trusted and popular firewall products -- Checkpoint Software's Firewall-1. The demonstration, presented at the "Black Hat" security conference in Las Vegas, challenged the widely accepted notion that firewalls are largely immune to direct attack. <SNIP>**********************************************