Re: Firewalls and Research

["Clonts, Neal D. (HSC)" <Neal-Clonts () OUHSC EDU>]

We do provide access based on request.  We allow the ports that are
required for business requirements and only to those systems that offer
the service that has been approved. 

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Neal Clonts, CISSP, MCP
Information Security Services
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
800 N.E. 15th St. ROB-138, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Phone: 405-255-2999
Email: nclonts () ouhsc edu

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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Pancer
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:46 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firewalls and Research

Clonts, Neal D. (HSC) wrote on Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:10:56 -0500...

> We currently use several firewalls on campus including our border.  We
> prevent all inbound except port 80 and eventually we would like to
proxy the
> traffic inbound on port 80.  At first we were worried about the
response
> that we would receive by doing this, but the response was very
limited.  We
> spent most of time teaching the researchers and scientists on how
> applications communicate and guiding them on how to make requests for
> access.

So my mail will get bounced because you don't let 25/tcp in? :)

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