Re: AW: Zone Alarm

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:30:15PM -0400, JT said:
> I always thought it was illogical to let packets reach the machine I'm
> trying to protect. I'd rather pass through a dedicated machine. Are there
> any advantages TO using a production machine as a firewall?? 

Well, 80% of attacks are internal, so there's an advantage to having a
software firewall as ONE of your layers, in that it's pretty costly to
have a seperate dedicated firewall for every machine.


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