Re: Firewalling at the domain users level instead of network level

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:

[snip what I agree with...]

> The second concern is a matter of policy: why do you want your firewall
> to treat users differently?  If it's a bad idea for person A to do some
> type of network connection, why should it be OK for person B to do so?

There are a multitude of reasons, including Person B being more clued than
Person A.

We don't tout the "Principle of equal privilege"

Principle of least privilege works for people, applications and systems.

 If you restrict things so that only the services which you trust all
> users to do are permitted, your security is likely to be much improved
> compared to a policy based on an ever-growing pile of per-user rules
> and exceptions.

If you let one user have the Administrator password, why not all of them!?

Paul
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