Isn't that what you call Zone Boundary Security (ZBS)..

At 12:43 PM 11/29/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I've had the displeasure of trying to "protect" departments from each 
>other so I'll throw my two cent at this one.
>
>The real solution is to implement access controls to the data instead of 
>trying to segment the individual LANs.  It has been my experience that 
>firewalling between departments that do business with each other soon 
>becomes an administrative nightmare.  Every Tom, Dick and Harriet manager, 
>auditor, accountant, attorney, admin assistant, and-on-and-on, etc., etc., 
>etc. . . has some reason why they needed "special" access through the 
>firewall.  To give you an idea of how bad this got, at one point the there 
>were over 1,800 the IP filtering rules on 21 different routers.
>
>For all practical purposes these rules were there so personnel in the 
>departments didn't have to do anything to protect their resources.  This 
>got changed.  First we educated the owners of the data on their 
>responsibility to classify their data and determine who should have access 
>to it.  Then we set up groups to implement those controls.   Then we gave 
>the owners of the data the ability to add or remove people from those 
>groups as they saw fit.  Finally, we remove the majority of the filter 
>rules from the routers.
>
>-- Bill Stackpole, CISSP
>
>
>
>
>David Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>11/29/00 06:59 AM
>
>         To:        "'Hubert Felber'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         cc:        "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         Subject:        RE: Firewall for LAN
>
>
>
>Why would a firewall between lans be a lot different then a `regular`
>firewall ?
>Any firewall where you can disable the NAT would do right ?
>
>David
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hubert Felber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:35 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Firewall for LAN
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for firewall solutions to work on the LAN. We want to protect
>the inhouse departments from each others. Once there was a product called
>Eagle LAN from Raptor. I don't know if this still exists, but this is
>exactely the kind of firewall solution I am looking for.
>
>Does anybody know, or can anybody recommand a product?
>
>Thank you
>Hubert
>
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