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Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift
From: jseymour () linxnet com (Jim Seymour)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:00:29 -0500 (EST)
"Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com> wrote:
George Capehart wrote:Some light reading for the weekend . . . Thought it'd stir the pot a bit more for the "Firewalls that generate new packets . . ." thread. ;> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=140121&f_src=drweekly
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"Next Generation firewalls"? Gosh, oh, golly - it sounds like what they're calling "Next Generation firewalls" are kinda sorta like "what firewalls were supposed to do all along."
[snip] Everything that's old is new again? Hasn't this been on the horizon a couple years or so, now? ISTR starting to hear about application proxies again a couple years ago or so. I recall laughing, at the time, about how it seemed "security experts" and admins were going to re-discover something that's been around for, well, quite a long time. How sad. Not to haul this thread off-subject or off-topic, but, ironically: Coincident with this discussion, here, there is running on another mailing list to which I'm subscribed a discussion about the email spam and email-borne malware problem and somebody suggested (paraphrased) "Maybe if some of the relevant RFC's "should"s and "should not"s were be turned into "must"s and "must not"s?" Such as "HELO/EHLO MUST consist of." The other idea floated was that Postel's Robustness Principle is archaic. Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.linxnet.com/contact/scform.php>. Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.linxnet.com/contact/scform.php>. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift George Capehart (Nov 29)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 30)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Jim Seymour (Nov 30)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Paul Melson (Nov 30)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift william fitzgerald (Nov 30)
- Re: Dark Reading: Firewalls Ready for Evolutionary Shift Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 30)