Re: Firewalls/Internet Security - TNG

[Fred Donck <f.c.w.donck () siep shell com>]

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> Where next? I think that for security products to succeed, and for
> network/system management products to succeed, the two must
> become one. System and network management are already huge
> markets -- sooner or later one of two things will happen:
>         -> heterogenous products for system/network management
>                 will appear, and will incorporate security as a component

>         -> heterogenous networks will disappear and be replaced
>                 with networks all running products from Microsoft and
>                 Microsoft will 'fix' security when they get around to it
>                 or it'll be a 3rd party add-on for Windows-2000

Looking at how the company I work for acts....
It's going for wall2wall M$ products.
> From desktop to NT boxes out in the open with so-call M$-firewall products
on them.
Unfortunately this showes that Marcus is right. Signs are there !!

This scares me.

Just my $0.02,
Fred

> mjr.
> --
> Marcus J. Ranum, CEO, Network Flight Recorder, Inc.
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> home - http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr

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