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Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit
From: Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:34:13 -1000 (HST)
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: : On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Scott Weeks wrote: : > on the .pif, .scr, etc. attachments...) Maybe I was just lucky. Most : > likely, though, they did not create "security zones" to keep problems : > contained within certain network segments and not let them out to destroy : > other networks. : : Luck is very important. Yes, it is. <knock, knock> (on wood) : may have 100,000 users with identical configurations (software, patch : levels, etc) in one big flat network. A large homogeneous population is : vulnerable to a common infection. Nachia has a very effecient scanning I didn't mean to suggest the network was one large, flat network. It can be segmented and have no "security zones", it can be segmented and have said zones, and it could be a BAFN. (Big A$$ Flat Network) It's just security-wise the network should be cut into zones (which may or may not follow the L3 topology) that are controllable from a security stand point. From the article (the author's reputation is an unknown) it appears that this is not the case. I see above I hinted that the security zones followed the network segmentation and I didn't mean that. One security zone could have more than one network segment, etc. Like I need to tell you this... :-) However, I just wanted to clear the point that I fouled up. scott
Current thread:
- Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Sean Donelan (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Gary E. Miller (Aug 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit vern (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Sean Donelan (Aug 20)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 20)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Adi Linden (Aug 19)
- Re: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 19)
- RE: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit McBurnett, Jim (Aug 20)
- RE: Navy Marine Corps Internet hit Scott Weeks (Aug 20)