Re: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:04 PM +0200 Michal Zalewski 
<lcamtuf () ghettot org> wrote:
> I'd argue... many vendors (Okena aka Cisco, BlackICE aka ISS, etc)
> provide integrated corporation-wide mechanisms for enforcing group
> firewalling, access and logging/IDS policies on workstations or groups of
> workstations (and, why not, also servers).
The problem is that you cannot "firewall" the networking protocols.  Okena 
and other products like it make a good attempt at stopping attacks, but 
they are outrageously expensive for the most part.

I'm arguing that more thinking and planning needs to go in to the 
networking part of the equation (not TCP/IP but file sharing/authentication 
protocols.)

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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