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Re: ridiculous situation
From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:03:54 +0530
On 29/11/02 11:33 -0700, Glenn Valenta wrote:
Also, some people feel that a firewall is unnecessary if you don't run any services that are vulnerable to attack. The problem with this philosophy is when someone eventually breaks one of those services.
A firewall is a useful tool as part of a security infrastructure. The problem is, no non-application layer firewall will work to protect a vulnerable system from attacks. The only true defense is to run secure code and stay patched, and alert. Read the logs. A packet filter can reduce a lot of noise, but really doesn't add much security unless you are running a DMZ and an internal network which should not have any access to/from the Internet. Devdas Bhagat
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