RE: Home Storage Area Network security

["Bob German" <bobgerman () irides com>]

If it prevents network-debiliatating attacks like Blaster and friends,
YES.

-bob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Geo.
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:15 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Home Storage Area Network security



> What caused me to completely cross over into the "port filtering is 
> OK" camp was the fact that Microsoft themselves, in a "securing 
> Windows NT" document we found a while back, recommended that due to 
> inherent insecurities, NetBIOS be disabled on Internet machines.  If 
> the vendor says it shouldn't be connected to the Internet, I tend to 
> agree.

So basically what you are saying is that it should be the network
operators responsibility to secure every application that might be used
over said network?

Geo.