Re: Firewall Administration

["Parker, Ben C" <parkerbc () MUC EDU>]

Same for us.  Typical I am the one to do both, the other network people
here have access, but tend to let me be the one to send the command.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cal Frye [mailto:cjf () CALFRYE COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:11 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firewall Administration

Well, our IT Security group IS our networking group...
I look forward to the discussion.

--Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
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Hart, Lee Anne wrote:
> If you don't mind sharing, who maintains your firewalls - hardware and
> operating system, not the firewall software? Currently, our IT
Security
> team are the only people with access to our firewalls, but our
> networking group is asking for some rights to maintain the hardware
and
> to be able to reboot them. I have mixed feelings about this and wanted
> to know how other organizations handle this. Also, what are some of
the
> pros and cons of this?  Thanks,
>
> Lee Anne Hart
> IT Security Analyst
> Montgomery College