Re: Personal Firewall Day?

[Charles Miller <cmiller () pastiche org>]

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 09:45  AM, Paul Robertson wrote:
> My proposal is that we have a "Personal Firewall Day."  Where we all 
> try
> to get home users (and corporate users if applicable/possible) to 
> install
> home or personal firewalls, up-to-date Anti-Virus software, etc.  I'm
> thinking this would be best soon after Christmas, so we have a chance 
> to
> get all the new PC presents covered as well.

Interesting timing:

'To combat the problems with patch management, however, the company 
[Microsoft] is moving to a "securing the perimeter" strategy where it 
will partner with various firewall companies to ensure that electronic 
attacks don't even reach their intended targets but are instead 
thwarted at the edge of the network, or what network specialists call 
the perimeter.  Microsoft's security shift was first revealed in 
mid-September when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during a speech 
that the company was working on "shield technology." In the speech, he 
said, "the most important technology area we are focused on is shield 
technology. We know bad guys keep writing viruses. The goal is to block 
them before they get on PCs."'

http://wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=40423 (October 2nd)

Charles Miller

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