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State of the Internet
Archive for December, 2007
Fake Cop Captured Via Email
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Posted in Email, Security, police | 1 Comment »
Most of you might not know that there was a fake police officer pulling people over and getting free meals in the area s surround League City, Texas which is ... Read more..Tipping the King, Resetting the Board
Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in Firewalls, IDS, Management, Risk, Security, Security Vendors, UTM | 3 Comments »
I have to concede to Chris on several points of his latest post. I do so because: He definitely has more experience, than I, deploying a variety controls in a ... Read more..The Perimeter is DEAD - Let’s Make It More Complex
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Firewalls, IDS, Risk, Security, Snort, Vulnerability | 1 Comment »
All of this started when I decided to react to the Kelly Jackson Higgins' DarkReading Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift article. Fast on its heals came a follow-up in ... Read more..Quit Complicating Our Controls - UTM Remix
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Firewalls, Management, UTM, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
I had a good comment from Tarek on the original Quit Complicating Our Controls post. In fact, firewall were made to protect the different network segments or zones from ... Read more..Quit Complicating Our Controls
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 Posted in Data, Firewalls, IDS, Management, Security | 7 Comments »
After reading LonerVamp's take on the application aware firewall, I started to wonder why people constantly want to consolidate their controls. This is not a new debate and DarkReading's ... Read more..