Re: Outsourcing Firewalls/Internet Security count

[Ted Doty <ted () iss net>]

At 09:36 AM 12/4/97 -0500, Paul D. Robertson wrote:

> If the government, with its ability to investigate far more places than a 
> company, can't stop classified material from leaking to hostile 
> countries, I'm not sure how it's expected that private companies will 
> ensure anywhere near that level of trust for any significant ammount of 
> time and not get burned. 

I'm not familiar with any examples of classified information leaking out
via electronic means; all the cases I can think of is someone selling
secrets (tossing packages over embassy walls and things like that).  A
firewall really won't help prevent this (or intrusion detection, either).

- Ted

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