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Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:10:40 -0800

On 3/21/07 2:41 AM, Tarig Ahmed wrote:

Is it true that NAT can provide more security?


No.

However, some things like PCI compliance require NAT, likely because of
the "NAT = super hacker firewall" concept.

~Seth


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