firewalls usefulness article: Incessant hacking exposed

["Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>]

Security firm PanSec International and Internet service provider PSINet
Europe set up two fake banking sites and monitored the number of times
they were attacked over an eight-week period.

One site was protected with a standard firewall – the other was left
unprotected.

The firewall prevented 90 per cent of attacks, but the protected site
was still attacked more than 200 times a week.

The unprotected site was attacked a total of 19,128 times over the
eight-week period – more than once every five minutes. 
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Full article available at
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=3722

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James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566

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