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Re: Firewall Basics
From: "NSC" <news-letters () bluewin ch>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:51:21 +0200
Some say that having two different firewalls will make it harder for an attacker, and some say that with different firewalls you have more chance to have misconfiguration problems. So if your familiar only with PIX it's probably better to put a second PIX. But that may be a philosophical question ! Simon S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Fountain" <jfountain () rbinc com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:18 PM Subject: Firewall Basics Hi all: I am designing a "service" network that is separate from our "production" network. Our web sites, email server, etc will be utilizing this network; whereas, internet traffic and vpn traffic will utilize the other. My question is in regards to firewalls. Currently, I am using a PIX for my production network. From what I have been hearing, it is recommended to use two different firewall vendors in this situation. Is this a general consensus with all of you? Or do you think having another pix would be ok? Thanks for any info! Kind Regards, Jennifer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Firewall Basics Jennifer Fountain (Jul 21)
- SV: Firewall Basics Kim Guldberg (Jul 22)
- Re: Firewall Basics NSC (Jul 22)
- Re: Firewall Basics Miles Stevenson (Jul 22)
- RE: Firewall Basics David Gillett (Jul 22)
- RE: Firewall Basics J.Ayoola (Jul 22)
- Re: Firewall Basics jon rodman (Jul 23)
- Re: Firewall Basics Miles Stevenson (Jul 23)
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