RE: Firewall configuration statistics

[security () rexwire com]

That makes absolutely no sense. Plus I am not looking for a philosophical
answer. I was looking statistics for marketing. Does anyone know of a good
reference site for firewall and other security statistics.

SKP

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Pryzby [mailto:justinpryzby () users sourceforge net] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:18 PM
To: security () rexwire com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Firewall configuration statistics


Security,

100% of firewalls are misconfigured.  I guarantee that no firewall
administrator has considered all of the posibilities that are out there.
Moreover, there are guaranteed bugs in the firewalling software itself.

No firewalls are misconfigured.  Computers do what they are told, and
the occasion cosmic ray bitflip is insignificant compared to human
error.  FW admins who use broken software or write bad FW policies
deserve to suffer the consequences.

Take your pick.  As a user, I think all firewalls suck because at best
they are another layer for things to get f()'d up, and at worst they
prevent me from doing stuff.  As an admin, I know of no more problems in
my current firewall configuration (-j DENY), but let me check.

Unless you elaborate on whichever number you quote, it is meaningless.
Anyone who has ever deal with a firewall will know that.  You will,
however, impress 99% of everone with a cool word like ''firewall''.

Justin


On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:42:26AM +0000, security () rexwire com wrote:
> I remember once reading that X amount of firewall's are misconfigured.
Does
> anyone know where I can get this statistic from? We are making some new
> marketing material and I would like to include this stat in it. A quotable
> source would be great.
>
> Thanks
>
> SKP
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