Mikael:
I agree wholeheartedly with you, but I think the reason is that the
security of a firewall is taken for granted. Nobody asks "How secure is
FW-1/Gauntlet/Sidewinder/etc.", they just assume that the products are
completely secure.
I have recently been perusing the archives for this maillist (circa
1995-1996), and this topic came up in a few posts then. I believe mjr
said something along the lines of: It's not the firewall you need to
worry about, it's the administrator/policy/boneheaded mistakes you need
to worry about.
I think this is a very interesting topic, especially in the light of the
sheer number of firewall products (and I use that term loosely) that are
available on the market today as opposed to 4-5 years ago.
-Ryan
Mikael Olsson wrote:
> <soapbox>
>
> What completely boggles my mind is how people discuss
> firewall evaluation and selection on this list.
>
> "It's cheap"
> "It's easy to install"
> "It's turnkey - i didn't have to configure anything" (?!?!)
> "It prints nice executive reports every week. I don't
> know what to do with them but they look real shiny and nice"
> "It plugs nicely into my web site traffic monitor"
> "It runs on my favourite OS"
>
> Where did the
> "How secure is it?" question go?!
>
> (Yes, there _are_ differences!)
>
> </soapbox>
>
> Yeah I know, this is a huge flame bait. :-P
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