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RE: Security Policy


From: "Januszewski, Joseph" <jjanusze () exchange nih gov>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:36:34 -0400

On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 03:20:59PM +0200, Wolfgang 'Robyn' Braun wrote:
[...] I get the feeling that something very basic is missing, and
last night i found out what it is: A Security Policy! [...] I
know what should be allowed across the firewall and i know how to
implement it (actually i already did it on my private subnet) -
but i really don't know how to write a security policy.

Is there some sort of guideline on how to write a security policy?


RFC 1244, Site Security Handbook

also try:  Internet Security Policy: A Technical Guide at
http://csrc.nist.gov/isptg/


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