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Re: Defense in Depth to the Desktop
From: Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:48:56 -0500
At 04:30 PM 12/13/2004 -0500, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> > This> > > is the classic "eggshell" weakness of network security, hard and crunchy on> > the> > > outside, soft and chewy on the inside. The Strong Internal Network Defense> > > > I don't think I'd use eggshell to denote hard ;) > >> But I would. It's relatively hard compared to what's inside, but, as you note ...
And this is all an example of the loss of historical data we experience in network security. (I've ranted on it here: http://www.ianetsec.com/news/all_fc_avolio1.htm).
Of course, it is not like an egg. It is like a candy bar that has a "crunchy shell around a soft, chewy center" (Cheswick describing the Bell Lab's network defense in "The Design of a Secure Internet Gateway."
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