Archive for ‘Firewalls’

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Jul09

Are people Still using DMZ’s?

by Michael Farnum on July 9th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Posted In: Firewalls, Security, Security Products

The simple answer to the title is "yes".  However, that is really not the exact question I am asking here.  The question is really "are DMZ’s actually still DMZ’s?"  Let me ‘splain. I had a client ask me the other day if I was seeing a drop in the use of DMZ’s out there.  We […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug02

Pay it Forward Security tip of the day

by Michael Farnum on August 2nd, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Firewalls, Old school, Security, Tips

I am going to sponge off of Michael’s tip at MCWResearch for my tip of the day.  Michael gives some good advice for configuring and managing firewalls (Michael must be old-school security, since firewalls aren’t needed anymore – right….). He specifically talks about egress filtering, which is something many companies do not take use in their security.  […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul18

Another successful admin / manager advice post – also touching on “good enough”

by Michael Farnum on July 18th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Posted In: Firewalls, Old school, Security, UTM

I have posted a couple of times on how to be a successful security admin / manager (here and here).  Well, here is another one (ok, enough of the groans). So, here is today’s advice: stick with the tried and true security.  There are methods of security that have been tested for quite a while […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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